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From: WAXMONRW@SNYBUFVA.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Agate069
Message-ID: <07F5B0D840221721@SNYBUFVA>
Date: 27 Apr 91 16:03:00 GMT
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ALBRO%NIEHS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU said:

>I downloaded Agate069.bsq from tybalt.caltech.edu by anonymous FTP.  Although
>I had requested ASCII mode (since a .bsq file should have been BINSCIIed),
>the accompaning message said that "Image" mode had been forced and a binary
>transfer used.  The file I received (93 blocks) has no header, is not
>recognized by BINSCII, GSCii, or GS.Shrinkit, and seems to be unusable.
>
>What went wrong?  Is there some specification that has to be set before the
>transfer?  My end is a VMS system, files coming in as RECEIVE files.

I also had this problem using tybalt and I never got it resolved; Todd did
not know what know what the problem was and could not (did not have time)
to help.

Subsequently, I had the same problem with .bsq files from .apple2.archive.
umich.edu. But here I solved the problem. Hopefully, the .umich solution
will work for .tybalt.

The source of the problem APPEARS to be a translation problem on the VAX. I
am guessing that you are on a VAX and that you are using BITFTP@PUCC to
get the file for you; at least that is what I have to do. Anyway, try this:

1. Send for the file as BINARY (Yeah, I know, it is supposed to be ascii
    but send for it as binary).

2. When it arrives at your VAX, extract it from the "receive buffer"
   with the "binary switch" (receive/binary).

3. Once the binary file is in your directory do the following, in
   sequence:

   a. type "analyze/file/fdl filename.bsq;1"
   b. type "edit filename.fdl;2 substiute/carriage_return/none/21"
   c. type "convert filename.fdl;2 filename.bsq;1 fixed_filename.bsq;1"

4. The file you want is the last: "fixed_filename.bsq;1". Send (with the
   VAX's send/file command) that file to yourself; that fixes the line
   length problem.

5. You had better delete the original file (filename.bsq;1) from you
   directory as well as the .fdl;2 and fixed_filename.bsq;1 (assuming
   you have completed (4) above.

6. Extract "fixed_filename.bsq;n" ("n" depends on how many files in
   your receive buffer) with the RECEIVE (no binary switch) command -
   (RECEIVE fixed_filename.bsq;n).

7. Hopefully, you will have a binscii file in your directory. "Edit"
   it to be sure.

I have had someone automate the "fixing" for me, so it is possible I
may have a syntax error in the above explanation.  Try it.  If you have
a problem, get back to me.

Ray Waxmonksy (waxmonrw@snybufva)
Dept. of Geography
Buffalo State College