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From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Hammer T. H.)
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Subject: Re: BinSCII 1.0.3
Message-ID: <1990Nov07.223449.6374@hoss.unl.edu>
Date: 7 Nov 90 22:34:49 GMT
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... dcw@goldilocks.lcs.mit.edu writes:

[stuff about this being an EXECable file deleted]

>Once the file is on your Apple (you can check it by loading it into
>your favorite text editor), EXEC it. Your should now have a SYS file
>named BINSCII. If it is not a SYS file, then EXEC it again. Loop until
>filetype = SYS.

Could the looping be avoided by doing a BLOAD BINSCII,A$2000 followed by a
DELETE BINSCII then a CREATE BINSCII,TSYS and ending with BSAVE
BINSCII,A$2000,L$E31,TSYS instead of "Loop until filetype = SYS"?  That's
what I had to do when I dled it from a BBS I had uploaded it to.  DL to
the Mac, send to the IIe, BLOAD and BSAVE, and it worked perfectly.

[EXEC file deleted, save the following last two lines]

>BSAVE BINSCII,A$1000,L$0E31
>E00G

Or perhaps alterating these lines to do the above?  (It seems very strange
that it would work SOME of the time.)

>--
>Dave Whitney
>Computer Science MIT 1990	| I wrote Z-Link and BinSCII. Send me bug
>dcw@lcs.mit.edu		| reports. I need a job. Send me an offer.
>Every now and then one makes a mistake. Mine was probably this post.

By the way, the commands EXEC, RUN, and BRUN have become obsolete.  The -
command will work with all those filetypes, including SYS files.

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