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

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Jeff Blakeney <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-mpr-this> wrote:
> That is strange.  I'm pretty sure the current version of BINSCII didn't
> support extended files (files with resource forks) but I think there was
> a draft of a version that did that wasn't put into use.  If the original
> BINSCII file did contain a GScii archive that had a resource fork (a
> comment perhaps) then the ProDOS 8 BSCit wouldn't be able to deal with
> it correctly whereas the GS/OS based GScii would be able to.

It didn't.  The idea was kicked around but ultimately rejected, if only
because converting an uncompressed file didn't make sense.  The only
reason to encode something with BinSCII is to transmit it over a text-based
medium like Usenet, which means size matters.

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