Re: Grind Archive.

[nparker@cie.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

In article <1993Oct5.012942.6808@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>,
steven-nelson@uiowa.edu wrote,
>Re: automatic binscii'ing of files.  Doable.  Probably will be done if I
>can find the unix program to create binscii files.  I thought it was called
>'bsc' but I haven't seen it.  (Haven't looked real hard, either :-) )
>What is the program I'm looking for?  Also, it would need to send all segments
>in _one_ file to be useable with ftp get.  Or else only ftp mget could be
>used.

The program is "bsc".  It can be obtained from a couple of places:

     wuarchive.wustl.edu:/usenet/comp.sources.apple2/14-repost.Z
     cco.caltech.edu:/pub/apple2/source/bsc.aaf

By default it writes all BinSCII segments to a single file--you have to use
a command-line option to get it to split up files.

>Re: Binary II shrinkit files.  Yes, that is the obvious solution, but hardly
>anyone uploads binscii<-binaryII<-shrinkit files.  Almost everything to date
>is binscii<-shrinkit.  I need a sciibin which creates binaryII files around
>its contents (iff the contents aren't already a BinaryII file).  I don't
>think binscii,gscii,sscii etc. need this option because they run on AppleII's.

I'm working on this.  The almost-finished source code for bsc version 2.0
is sitting in one of my directories, waiting for me to write some
command-line-parsing routines and do some debugging.  When it's done, it
will both encode and decode BinSCII files, and will convert back and forth
between BinSCII and Binary II.

My only problem so far is finding time and inspiration to sit down and
finish it.


Re: To Binary II or not to Binary II...for whatever it's worth, I do most
of my downloading with Kermit-65 v3.87, which doesn't automatically extract
Binary II.  A Binary II wrapper would be pretty much useless to me.

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