Re: Apple2 archive at grind.isca.uiowa.edu

[taob@r-node.io.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <1993Oct3.041719.11783@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>, Steven Nelson writes...
> 
>   1) Everyone should put .shk files in a BinaryII file before binscii'ing
>      and uploading.

    That's fine for new files, but it doesn't help the ones that are
already on grind.

>   2) sciibin for unix needs to create binaryII files when decoding files.
>      Not an important issue on GSCII+ or Binscii since those run on a2
>      machines.  Probably not important for sscii for the same reason.

    Why not write a new UNIX utility that creates Binary II wrappers. 
It would work in the following way:

1.  On the UNIX system, name all the files with ProDOS-legal filenames.
2.  Run 'b2' (that's the utility) on all the files.
3.  It will automatically add a Binary II wrapper to every file using
    the current filename.
4.  Now that they have a legal ProDOS name encoded in the file, you can
    safely give them long, descriptive names.

    Anyone want to write such a utility?  :)
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