Re: Extracting Problem?

[jblaby@news.cyberstore.ca (John Blaby)]

On Fri, 8 Apr 1994 16:20:26 GMT, Steven Nelson (snelson@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu) wrote:
  > > I've never gotten a SYS16 SEA file before...  Am I doing something
  > > wrong?  Is this an indication my copy of the file is corrupted?
  > > 

  > Use the p8 version, BINSCII, to decode .SEA files.  GSCII+ and sciibin (unix)
  > both have a bug that produces invalid SEA files.  (They aren't really corrupt,
  > but have some extra bytes at the end of the (mod 48, I think) that messes up
  > the GS loader.)  

This interesting. The compiled version of sciibin that I have at my
unix site handles SEA files fine. I recently piped that file converter
(apple unix and ibm) through my sciibin util, then d/loaded it. I had
to change the filetype to sys16 as I have the default filetype set to
.shk for zmodem d/loads. I clicked on the file and everything proceeded
as expected.

I suppose it could be a coincidence that the file ended up the correct
length. I am not about to check that out though :)

John

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