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From: cs4344af@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Fuzzy Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Downloading GEOS files
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.194707.15835@evax.arl.utexas.edu>
Date: 29 Mar 91 19:47:07 GMT
References: <20097@brahms.udel.edu>
Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington
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In article <20097@brahms.udel.edu> hamilton@brahms.udel.edu (Andrew W Hamilton) writes:
>I have downloaded several GEOS files for my C64.  When I try to run them from
>the desktop, they either won't load in at all, or GEOS does not realize they
>are applications, and loads them in like a normal BASIC program (which of
>course makes the program inoperable).  How do you make a GEOS file recognized
>as an application, printer driver, Geowrite document, etc. ?  And what is the
>file type (PRG, USR, SEQ) of these programs?

GEOS files are supposed to be type USR, because they are formatted in a
way that is rather alien to Commodore DOS.  This is why you should never
validate a GEOS disk unless you are in GEOS.

To make uploading and downloading possible, you need a program that can
do what is called Geo-Conversion.  Berkeley made such a program some
time ago, and a couple of programs by William Coleman will do this (a
bit better than Berkeley's program).  If you have GeoTerm, from the
Compute! disk, you can convert files with that.

The converters (as well as just about ALL of the GEOS software ever
made) are on Quantum Link.  This is reason alone for joining Q-Link.

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