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From: dat33228@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Derek A. Taubert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: GSCii plus and other news...
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Date: 8 Nov 90 07:10:12 GMT
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  This post has two purposes:

1) to inform the people who were having trouble with GSCII crashing after the
stdfile dialogs
2) to mention the progress on GSCII+

first, I found the problem (I think) with GSCII that caused it to crash after
the file selecting...  GSCII has to start up the stdfile and list tools by
itself, and I had made a typo (must have been one of those 4 o'clockers) that
COULD sometimes the list toolbox not to be started...  GSCII + should fix this,
we'll see how it goes..

second, GSCII+ is almost finished.  I have to implement the binscii encoding
and it will be ready for testing.  I decided not to implement binhex encoding,
the NDA is getting big enough (50k).  It will decode mac resources encoded into
binhex files in two ways:
     1. to a file separate from the resource fork (you can
        use resource spy to look at these, I've converted a few fonts already.)
     2. to the resource fork of the original file.  This second method is
        supported because GSHK does it, and someday someone might come up with 
        a resource converter...

if you think that 50k is too big for a DA, please mail me and I will either
produce a GSCii 2.0 without binhex or I will re-do the entire project in
assembler...  just depends on the demand.

So, I need beta testers for GSCII+ v1.0

--
+ Derek Taubert --> derek@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu + Author of : GSCii	      +
+		    dat33228@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu  + {MUCH more to come...}	      +
+ "Well, ...lettuce is a transformation of a dead cougar that suffered a      +
+ relapse on a lion's toe.  And he swallowed the lion and something happened. +
+ The ...see, the ...Gloria and Tommy, they're two heads and they're not      +
+ whales.  But they escaped with herds of vomit, and things like that."	      +