Re: help with the ground's archives

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Andrea wrote:

>Michael J. Mahon wrote:

<snip>

>> >You need an un-BINSCII program on the Apple end.  (Actually,
>> >you could un-BINSCII on the Windows machine, since your
>> >transport path from there on supports binary.)
>> >
>> >BINSCII is available for 8-bit Apples (and gsCII or something for
>> >the IIgs) on ground, caltech, or almost any archive.
>> >
>> >With binary file transfers now ubiquitous, BINSCII is no longer
>> >needed except to un-BINSCII very old files or files posted in
>> >an ASCII "binaries" newsgroup.
>
>It is possible to compile SCIIBIN for UNIX also under DOS/WIN32.
>Use a standard ANSI C++ compiler

The BINCSII <--> binary conversion is very simple, just a matter
of converting 6-bit groups into printable characters or vice versa.

It's about a half-page BASIC program if speed is not an issue.

-michael

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