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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: File types - Problem with downloads
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Date: 24 Jun 89 20:28:49 GMT
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>When I download a EXEcable file and EXEC it, it makes a BIN type file
>instead of a SYS type.
>
>This means I cannot run it :-(

The usual cause of this problem is an Executioner file that has a 'pad'
character (or a blank or something) in the line before the BSAVE (the
BSAVE *must* be preceeded by 2 <cr's> with NO intervening characters).

If you EXEC and don't get the message "<programname> Saved" when the
EXEC completes, you might try

CALL -151
E00G

I haven't experienced the problem, so I haven't any experience with trying
to get the 'closer' routine to run by hand that way, but the code the
Executioner stores at E00 is a program to write the proper directory entry
for the file that was just BSAVE'd.

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