Re: help with the ground's archives

[Michael Maginnis <michaelmaginnis@yahoo.com>]

On 18 Mar 2004 09:43:43 GMT, mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:

>Michael Maginnis wrote:
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>Your method will work, but BINSCII is not a compression program--
>it's an _expansion_ program!  ;-)
>
>It is in the same spirit as B64--it simply encodes a binary file
>into the 7-bit ASCII character set.
>
>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.)
>

Good point! Is there a specific un-BINSCII app for Windows that I
should be looking for?

>BINSCII is available for 8-bit Apples (and gsCII or something for
>the IIgs) on ground, caltech, or almost any archive.
>

But will BINSCII also do un-BINSCII?  The programs I have tried all
claim to be able to decode, but none will recognize the files as
archives.  I have a feeling it because of the way TransMac is writing
the files to the zip cart, but I don't know enough to be able to
customize the settings so that the files are recognized by an
un-BINSCII file.

Maybe a setp-by-step guide is in order.  If I ever figure out how to
do this, I'll write one...

>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.
>

A good portion of the files on the Ground FTP site are in BINSCII
format, unfortunately.

>-michael
>
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- Mike

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Apple II user since 1983
"Fighting the frizzies at eleven"
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