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From: TDSTRONG%MTUS5.cts.mtu.edu@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Tim Strong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: RE: ASC->... help!
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Date: 29 Apr 91 16:24:45 GMT
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>
>Help...  I am just starting to look at the programs out for the my
>hp48sx.  The problem I seem to be having is with the format of the
>program files.  Consistently the files I acquire have a header that looks
>like:
>         HPHP48-D...
>Then I noticed that there appears to be an encoding program for  hp48sx
>files called ASC->?  Could this program be the missing link to my
>problems?  If so, where do I get it?  If not, how do I get to run those
>nifty files like the ones on hpcvbbs.hp.com?
>
>-Marc

If a file starts with the header HPHP48-D its a binary file and both the
calculator and the computer must be in binary mode to transfer it.
Unfortunately the net tends to add extra linefeed characters and other
garbage to the file that makes direct binary files like this nerely impossible
to upload correctly.  The answer is either uuencode or ASC-> and ->ASC.
But in order to use ASC-> the file must first be put into ASC form
with ->ASC.  In your case that wasn't done so ASC-> will be no help in this
particular instance.  { Sorry if that doesn't make sense. If your confused
ask and I take some more time to sort it out for you }

ASC-> is not the problem in such files.  An ASC file merely looks like

"FD456E0A............."

a string of Hexadecimal characters.  If you need ASC-> out it is available
on Wayne's mail server.  If you don't know how to get on wayne's just ask
I think I can dig up a help file on it somewhere.

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