Re: binaries problems

[edward@pro-ren.cts.com (Edward Floden)]

In <39buh4$2bm@epicycle.lm.com> mportune@telerama.lm.com (Matt Portune) writes:

>help!  I can't convert any binaries from other newsgroups... I have no 
>problems with the A2 binaries.  However, when converting GIFs mainly, the 
>first file starts ok, then gets a "bad CRC" then the next however many 
>files return a "not apex, bincsii, or uuencoded file" error, or something 
>like that.  I'm using GSCii+ v2.3.1.   What's going on?

Unless you've found a strangely uploaded GIF, you don't need to convert GIFs:
they're not archives of any sort, they *are* the data.  You merely need to
view the file.

You may want to remove the header from the binary article, but that's all.