Setting file type to ASCII Text

[Doug <webmaster@macsrock.info>]

I've got an Macintosh LC III with the Apple PDS card in it.  I've also 
got several other Macs connected to the Internet.  I'm currently 
working on getting binscii working.  I've downloaded the 
binscii.exe.txt file (ascii text).  Unfortunately, when its downloaded 
on my Macs, the Mac assigns it its own filetype which causes it to come 
over to ProDOS as a $00 file type.

A little researching I came across a program called ProType, which does 
convert my file to a ProDOS text file.

But when I run EXEC BINSCII.EXE.TXT on the Apple //e emulator on the 
LCIII I get about 8 lines of hex code, then a whole bunch of SYNTAX 
ERRORS and then it just comes back to the Basic prompt.  No SYS file 
was created during this process, and according to the instructions that 
come with binscii, this is completely not the normal behavior.

Any ideas?