Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!snorkelwacker!mintaka!dcw From: dcw@lcs.mit.edu (David C. Whitney) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.apple2 Subject: Re: Trouble with Greetings program Message-ID: <1989Dec9.203225.22971@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 9 Dec 89 20:32:25 GMT References: <3415@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <1989Dec9.050922.14213@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu Organization: MIT Spoken Language Systems Group Lines: 39 In article <1989Dec9.050922.14213@agate.berkeley.edu> c60b2-ar@garnet.berkeley.edu (Allen Kelton) writes: >In article <3415@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> gk398816@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (guy kendall) writes: >> >>I got the file that plays the greetings music on the GS at boot up and >>cant get BINSCII to unpack >>it. Here is what I did: >>-Saved the message with the greetings program to my Unix system. >>-Used Proterm with the Kermit protocal to send it to my GS. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That's your problem right there. Proterm's kermit doesn't work right. Use another method (text capture will work). >>-Used Proterm's editor to remove the comments before the FileStart line. This step is unneeded. BinSCII is smart enough to ignore everything it doesn't need to see. >>Guy Kendall > One problem may be a difference in line terminators. Apple wants a >carriage-return, IBM wants a line-feed and carriage return, and Unix usees just >a line feed. Try converting the Unix line-feed to carriage returns with: > tr '\012' '\015' newname This is also an uneeded step. BinSCII doesn't care what the line terminator is. Any character not in the translation alphabet (the string of letters just after the line FiLeSt...) is considered a line terminator... Don't cause yourself more pain than needed. Just download the file however you like and then run BinSCII on it. By the way - sciibin for Unix is juts as smart and ignore's mail headers and stuff. -- Dave Whitney dcw@sun-bear.lcs.mit.edu ...!mit-eddie!sun-bear!dcw dcw@athena.mit.edu My employer pays me well. This, however, does not mean he agrees with me. I wrote Z-Link & BinSCII. Send me bug reports. I use a //GS. Send me Tech Info.