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

[bazyar@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar)]

jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes) writes:

>What _is_ this facination with Binary II?  

  Because Apple says so. There's a Miscellaneous tech note on the
request that all online services use Binary II encapsulation.

>I absolutely _do not_ want the
>files in BII format, because rz/sz and ftp (not yet, but very soon now)
>will not remove the BII header automatically.  Not only that, but it's
>a pain in the butt to get nulib on UNIX to recognize such a file -- you
>have to extract it twice.

  That should be considered a bug in Nulib. Bug Andy McFadden (or get someone
else to take up where Andy left off). YankIt deals wonderfully with Binary
II files.

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