Re: Binscii help - IIe card

[Greg Buchner <null@none.invalid>]

In article <1192680419.546426.242460@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
 Senor Wences <burker.josh05@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Oct 17, 6:27 pm, dangerman <thedangerman...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I can't seem to get Binscii to work.
> > When I try to exec the file, it gives me a file type mismatch.
> >
> > Am I corrupting the file by downloading it on the Mac?
> 
> Oh man, been there done that.
> 
> The problem is that the original file has line feed instructions that
> need to be converted.
> 
> There's a long story here about my battle to get FrEdWriter working
> and encountering the exact issue:
> 
> http://joshburker.blogspot.com/2007/09/fredwriter.html
> 
> Long of the short:  on your OS 9 Mac, open the binscii file in a text
> editor like bbedit, "select all" in the document and change the line
> endings to Carriage Feeds instead of the Line Feeds that the binscii
> archive available is currently encoded in.The file will then exec
> properly, like FrEdWriter did for me.

Or get a copy of ProType.  It'll decode the Binscii on the Mac and give 
the decoded file the correct ProDOS filetype so that the Mac shouldn't 
mess with the file any further.

Greg B.

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