Re: Q: how to get sys601 disk from apple?

[kls0@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Squires )]

In <1994Jun29.130813.1733@news.vanderbilt.edu> HOLTG@ctrvx1.Vanderbilt.Edu (_VTA5346:) writes:



>I have the same problem with ftp.apple.com.

>Why doesn't this ftp site have .SHK files anyway????
>Is seems to me that to BINSCII these disks is a waste of time for everybody!!!

>Could someone explain to me why these files aren't just .SHK.


It has to do with the fact that some people aren't able to transfer a binary
file via ftp - bsq files are actually text.


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