Re: Need help with BSCit2.1 and changing file type

["macdog" <bigdog128@gmail.com>]

On Apr 11, 6:04 pm, "Jeff Blakeney"
<jeff.blake...@a2central.com.remove-v1w-this> wrote:
>   To: Polymorph
>
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:20:42 -0700, Polymorph wrote:
> > Jeff I'm not sure if that's totally correct. In my case I *do* have to
> > change the filetype as when a SHK archive is transferred using zmodem
> > (using MMGR) it is saved with a TXT filetype. If I double click on the
> > archive from within the finder with it set to a TXT filetype, it opens
> > in Hermes (even with a .SHK appended to the end of the filename). As I
> > mentioned in a previous posting, however, I was able to change the
> > filetype to BIN or LBR and the file association would work (maybe it
> > just has to be anything other than TXT?).
>
> Yes, I just tried it again under KEGS and I believe Finder is allowing
> other programs to take text files first so if a ShrinkIt file is in a
> text file, it won't launch GSHK.  Most of my archives have the correct
> file/aux types set ($E0/8002 for SHK, $E0/8000 for BXY) but I did have
> one archive that was set to the unknown filetype ($00/0000) but had the
> proper filename extension and it launched GSHK with no problem.
>
> Perhaps you could tell MMGR to save to a different file/aux type or
> better yet, have it strip Binary II wrappers (if it has that option) and
> only give it Binary II wrapped archives (BXY files).
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Well, I finally got GScii on my GS working correctly.  I never got it
to work, using Bscii on it.  I finally found a version of GScii that
was archived using the BXY format.  Once I transferred that to my GS,
GSshrinkit worked perfectly and un-archived it and the program works
perfectly.

On a side note...even though I could never get BSCit to correctly
(sic) unpack the GScii archive, once i had GScii up and running, I
used it to unpack the original GSCii that was the BSC format.  Then I
ran GSshrinkit on the same file and it worked correctly.  Something
about using bscit did not work correctly.  GSCii worked perfectly,
though.  strange.

Jamie