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From: bazyar@ernie (Jawaid Bazyar)
Subject: Re: binaries postings
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 09:20:52 GMT
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In article <9104110035.AA10720@beaver.cs.washington.edu> davewh@microsoft.UUCP writes:
>I've noticed that recently people have posted binaries that were
>encoded with Gscii. These postings have lower case letters in the
>filename. Since BinSCII was designed under Prodos 8, it doesn't
>expect to get "illegal" characters in the filename. (It's expecting
>everything to be compliant with the Prodos filesystem.)


   Hey, wait a minute.  I tested that.  Binscii 1.0.3 correctly unpacked
a file with lowercase characters.  Doesn't ProDOS 8 convert lowercase
characters to to uppercase for the Prodos filesystem?

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