Re: GSCII via e-mail?

[dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <1994Jan14.220847.16922@roxi.rz.fht-mannheim.de>
chk@aix01.rz.fht-mannheim.de (Karpp Christian) writes:
>
> A friend of mine is new to the net. Absolutely new in
> data-communications. The only tool he has is GSHK. I told him that he
> also needs GSCII but how the crab can I send him a copy of it via
> e-mail?!?

The best solution is to use a copy of BINSCII (the ProDOS-8 utility)
which has been processed with EXECUTIONER.  This is commonly
available, and is probably on most of the Apple II FTP sites.

Once you have a copy of BINSCII, he can download a BinSCII-encoded
copy of GSCII+ and extract it.

> are there any tools available that do the same thing on GS/OS files,
> as the "Executioner" did on DOS 3.3 and ProDOS-8 files?!? (I don't
> think so...) 

EXECUTIONER will work fine on any ShrinkIt archive, no matter what the
contained files are, or on any ProDOS-8 file.  It cannot handle a file
with a resource fork, but you can shrink that and encode the ShrinkIt
archive.

I'm pretty sure that EXECUTIONER preserves the file type and length,
so it could also be used with self-extracting archives created by GSHK.
-- 
David Empson                                                               
dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz                                                
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