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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Binscii etc
Message-ID: <14307@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 2 Nov 90 00:06:25 GMT
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Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <10172@ur-cc.UUCP> maye_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Robert Mayer) writes:
>1. How do you aquire Binscii or GScii within Usenet or Internet? 

I found it on tybalt.caltech.edu.

>Assuming that I could find it how is packed?

You should get binscii.exe, which is a text file, copy it to your Apple II,
execute AppleSoft BASIC from a ProDOS system disk, then type
"EXEC BINSCII.EXE", which will interpret the file as though the text had
been manually typed in at the keyboard.  If all goes well, it will unpack
itself into a BINSCII.SYS file at that point.  That's your BINSCII program.
You can run it from BASIC by typing "-BINSCII.SYS".  The operation is
fairly obvious, except when unpacking a BINSCIIed file tell it the target
DIRECTORY, not a target FILE name (the file names are encoded in the
BINSCIIed archive).

>2. Where can I pick up a copy of GS Shrinkit or Shrinkit GS

I think they're also on tybalt.caltech.edu.