Re: Apple II Productivity Software posted to comp.binaries.apple2

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

Scott Alfter replied:

>In article <20020718231732.02863.00000358@mb-mw.aol.com>,
>Obsbedia2 <obsbedia2@aol.com> wrote:
>>thanks, but I wasn't able to download them from AOL
>
>There's not a newsreader out there that handles BinSCII (AFAIK), and I doubt
>that whatever AOHell uses is an exception.  Save the entire message to a
>text file, transfer that file to your II, and decode the message with
>BinSCII.  The same applies if you use Lookout Express, Agent, trn (which is
>what I use), or whatever.
>
>If that still doesn't work, then AOHell is more than likely mangling the
>messages.  In that case, I'd recommend changing to a real ISP...or maybe you
>can use one of the subscription Usenet services (such as Supernews or
>Newsguy).

AOL works fine, using exactly the process you describe.

-michael

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