Re: Need Ninjaforce's assembler off caltech

[nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

In article <4jahfg$ba9@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> mquattro@chat.carleton.ca
(Michael Quattrocchi) writes:
>i need to get the ninjaforce assembler from apple2.caltech.edu's apple2/dev
>directory... unfortunately, Lynx is corrupting all .shk's and grabbing
>them as txt files... if someone could email me this binscii'd, i'd be
>greatly appreciative 9and tell me how to make lynx work right, too!)

The answer to the lynx question is available in several places (including
http://www.the-hermes.net/~geoff/IIdownload.html, and a back-issue of
Shareware Solutions II from a year or so ago).  But it's been a while since
the secret was last posted here, so here it is.

When you use lynx for FTPing, it normally assumes that any file with an
extension that it doesn't recognize is a text file.  You can make it
recognize Shrinkit and Binary II files as binary by creating a file called
".mime.types" (on UNIX systems) or "MIME.TYPES" (on VMS systems) in your
home directory.  Put the following text into the file:

application/x-Shrinkit shk SHK sdk SDK
application/x-BinaryII bny BNY bqy BQY bxy BXY

This won't guarantee that *all* Apple II archives will be fetched in binary
mode, but it's sufficient for the vast majority of the stuff on the Apple
II FTP sites.

               - Neil Parker

(Ok...go ahead and tell me I'm hopelessly behind the times, but I still use
good ol' "ftp" to do my FTPing...)
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