Re: Looking for GScii+ NDA, binscii, bscit, StolenBase NDA

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

<bob@bob.us> wrote:

> >   From: dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)
> >Probably also worth mentioning my DESCII utility, which is a IIgs
> >command line tool for the ORCA shell (or GNO). I wrote it about 14 years
> >ago and I'm a bit hazy on the details, but my recollection is that it is
> >a BinSCII decoder only (hence the name, also coincidentally using my
> >initials). It was an order of magnitude faster than BinSCII (and not
> >requiring a trip into ProDOS-8). At the time I believed it to be the
> >fastest BinSCII decoder available on the IIgs. This may not be true any
> >more.
> >It was probably distributed via comp.binaries.apple2 (to which I no
> >longer have access) and might have made it into some of the archives.
> >If not, I should be able to dig it up again as my IIgs is probably still
> >in working order.
>
> Try here: www.chebucto.ca/Services/PDA/appleII.shtml under GS Compression
> and Conversion files.

Yes, there is a link to it there. Thanks for the pointer.

When I get a chance I'll see if 1.0.2 was the latest version.

I seem to recall adding experimental code for doing BinSCII encoding as
well, but might not have finished or distributed it.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz