Re: Unix Binscii??

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

In article <1993Mar29.040253.7037@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>
bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church) writes:
>In article <1993Mar19.175734.13086@cas.org> jws54@cas.org writes:
>>In article <1993Mar19.150322.1360@ncsu.edu>, rsjoyce@eos.ncsu.edu (ROGER STEPHEN JOYCE) writes:
>>|> 
>>|> Since most of the apple // file in the archives are now .SHK
>>|> instead of .BSQ files, does anyone know of a unix utility to
>>|> Binscii encode the binary files once I FTP them.  I have trouble
>>|> downloading binary files and need to convert them to .BSQ text
>>|> files first.  Any help is appreciated.
>>|> 
>>|> Thanks.
>>|> Roger.
>> Just uuencode them. GScii can decode them after dloading.
>>
>
>Is there an 8-bit solution for this?

For the UNIX end, there's the "bsc" program.  You can get the latest
version from wuarchive.wustl.edu, directory /usenet/comp.sources.apple2,
file 14-repost.Z.

For the Apple (8-bit) end, there's the original BINSCII program, available
at finer FTP sites everywhere (cco.caltech.edu, for example).

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