Re: Quitter - ProDOS-8 progra

[taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <53.491.2706.0N1EE5D9@enest.com>, Ray Vigneau <ray.vigneau@ENEST.COM> wrote:
>
>I'm new on this newsgroup and have seen this type of message many times
>but have never seen a post explaining what to do with the file.

    That's why I encourage the use of my binpost utility.  It prints a
little blurb at the beginning of the first segment of each file telling
you how to decode it.  It also sets up the Followup-To: so inquiries
like yours are redirected away from cba2 where they don't belong.

>I assume
>that the file is code in a form that can be transmitted over the net.
>How would I convert the code to a usable form?  Do I need a program to
>convert the code to a useable form?.  I have an Apple II+.  Whether I can
>use the code in question or not is not important to me.  I am just
>interested in the technology.

    From the binpost blurb:

    --- Delivered by binpost 2.0b, written by Brian Tao ---
  --- For more information on binpost, e-mail taob@io.org ---

This is a Binscii file.  You need a Binscii decoder to turn this
file back into its original form (usually a ShrinkIt file).  The
following software is available:

ProDOS 8 -> BINSCII
GS/OS    -> GScii+ (NDA), sscii/descii (shell EXE's)
UNIX     -> sciibin

If you have any questions about this file format, or you need
help decoding it, please post to the appropriate newsgroup
(not comp.binaries.apple2!)

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