Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Executioner Message-ID: <8907221710.aa11593@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 22 Jul 89 22:02:03 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 34 > Could anyone tell me if the file of Executioner at brownvm is correct? Unless something's happened to it recently, the file is ok at BROWNVM (which doesn't mean that it arrives on your ProDOS disk in the same condition). >I've tried twice to upload the file Apple2-l 87-00137 and upon execution >I get an error. The program seems to unpack just fine until it begins to >write itself to disk. It beeps and spits out a line of code usually ranging >in the E000 area. I have tried to unpack the file under Prodos and Dos 3.3 A common problem with The Executioner is padded lines (one or more trailing blanks on the code lines and especially in the line before the BSAVE command which *MUST* actually be 'null' ). Did you download with Kermit (Xmodem sometimes is a source of unwanted LF characters) and is the file stored on your host without pad characters (IBM hosts have 'F' and 'V' formats; 'F' causes trouble - 'V' *usually* won't)? Don't even try to unpack under DOS 3.3, the Executioner is designed for ProDOS. If you ended up with a 'B' file under DOS 3.3, you can try copying it to ProDOS and changing the filetype to .SYS with a typechange utility (will work in *theory* :-). Just in case - you DO have enough space left on the disk and you're not trying to exceed 50 files in a ProDOS 8 root directory are you? Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] (203) 486-5246 [FAX] (203) 486-2489 [PHONE] 41 49N 72 15W [ICBM] -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)