Re: more about BinSCII and Apple File Exchange

[tsetse@trance.helix.net (an ugly bag of mostly water)]

Master of the Forsaken Souls (teridon@wam.umd.edu) wrote:

: I downloaded a2binscii.exe from ftp.apple.com on to my Mac, used 
: Apple File Exchange to put it on a ProDOS disk, and copied it to 
: my Hard Drive's ProDOS partition.  So now what do I do with it???

i may be wrong, but i think you just "exec a2binscii.exe" from applesoft 
to generate the system file, which can then be run with "- <filename>"
but i could be quite wrong.

: I can't figure out how to get it onto the DOS partition so I can
: run it from the BASIC prompt.

get it to the dos partition? the above should create something that is 
dash runnable from the BASIC (prodos) prompt.

: Also, the file sysdisk.bsc is too darned big to fit on one disk!  
: Is there anyway to split it and recombine it?

ah yes, i remember that fun. that's what forced me to learn about binscii 
running on unix boxes. any chance of connecting your mac and apple// 
together with a serial cable?
also, look carefully on the apple ftp site - there may be a version of 
what you need stored in a mac archive. the mac can unarchive it straight 
to a prodos disk.

: About Apple File Exchange:  Is it normal for the translation from
: Mac to ProDos to take so long?  It took about 20 minutes for me to copy
: a 720K file.

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: teridon@wam.umd.edu	Senior, Aeronautical Engineering  
: Robert C. Jacobson	Univ. of Md., College Park
:       Pres., Univ. of Md. Tae Kwon Do Club

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