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Re: BINSCII problems...
In article <4gfeuv$7qk@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, rubywand@aol.com (RUBYWAND)
wrote:
>In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.960220134102.10187D-100000@owens>, Cyrus Roton
><croton@ridgecrest.ca.us> writes:
>
>>
>>Several people seem to be missing the point here. You can not run BINSCII
>
>>until you HAVE binscii.
>
> Certainly, this could be a firm barrier to further Binscii experiences.
>
>>I, too, tried downloading the exec file and using
>>it. I does not work as advertised. It creates a binary BINSCII file,
>>which is about the same size a the system binscii file (which I have on
>>another disk). But, that binary file will not BRUN and the Prodos
>>Exerciser can not read the file type so I can change it to "sys". The
>>exerciser tells me that there is some problem with the file. In other
>>words, there seems to be some problem with that exec file, BINSCII.V103X
>>which is found on grind (I mean on "ground")
>>
>
> Maybe BINSCII.V103X on Ground' really is messed up. Maybe not. One
>possible source of difficulty is that ShrinkIt-GS self-extracting files
>are type $B3 GS/OS applications. They expect to be executed under GS/OS.
If this person had a IIGS, they'd probably be using GScii rather than
BinSCII... The BINSCII.EXE file is supposed to be a ProDOS executable,
which is basically a text file that feeds commands to the ProDOS 8
AppleSoft BASIC command line, to generate the BinSCII SYS file (type $FF,
auxtype $2000)...
I believe the version at Caltech is correct, and as soon as I put the
archive back up (should be any day now, I'm just waiting on the copy of
Shrink II that has been generously donated to the archive by Diz at EGO
Systems), the person who needs it can grab it from there...
>Rubywand
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