Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!dlyons
From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: File types - Problem with downloads
Keywords: SYS BIN file types
Message-ID: <32580@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 21 Jun 89 20:13:17 GMT
References: <2069@dvinci.USask.CA>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <2069@dvinci.USask.CA> maton@dvinci.USask.CA (Terry Maton) writes:
>I have been having problems with file types now for some time.
>
>When I download a EXEcable file and EXEC it, it makes a BIN type file
>instead of a SYS type.

Do you get any error messages?  If all goes well with the execution of an
Executioner-created EXEC file, you should get the proper file type.  Did
you check to see if the resulting BIN file is actuall packed in Binary II
or ShrinkIt format?

>This means I cannot run it :-(
>
>I know there is a file type changer program in the APPLE2-L archives, but
>yes - Catch-22 - that file when downloaded and EXEC'd produces a BIN file!!!

You don't *really* need a special filetype changer to get started--it just
makes the process simpler.  (I really wish everybody habitually used a
command shell that has a command for changing filetypes and auxtypes.)

Anyway, if you have a file that's *supposed* to be a SYS file but is a
BIN file instead, here's what you can do from BASIC.SYSTEM.  If you just
want to execute the thing,

   BLOAD myfile,A8192
   CALL 8192

If you want to change the type, create a new SYS file and save the contents
of the BIN file into it, like this:

   CREATE newfile,TSYS
   BLOAD oldfile,A8192
   BSAVE newfile,TSYS,A8192,Lxyz

where "xyz" is the "endfile" (the size) of the old file as shown by the
CATALOG command (*not* the CAT command).

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