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From: lucifer@world.std.com (Kevin S Green)
Subject: Re: HELP!!  Hopelessly lost newcommer
Message-ID: <1991May27.195815.10189@world.std.com>
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
References: <1991May26.193512.47911@cc.usu.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 May 1991 19:58:15 GMT
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In article <1991May26.193512.47911@cc.usu.edu> sl3rz@cc.usu.edu writes:
[...edited for brevity...]
|  The procedure for downloading that I have used in the past is to ftp from
|wherever to my VAX and/or UNIX account here at Utah State Univ.  From there I
|transfer via kermit to my machine.  All transfers are in binary mode (I didn't
|want to take the chance of loosing a high bit during transfer) and in all but
|one or two cases, the transfers have been completely error free.
|
|  My question is:  what is the program that I need to unpack these files and
|where can I get it? _or_  What am I doing wrong?

Corwin,
 For files on FTP sites that end in .bsq you will need to transfer them
using ASCII instead of binary. Don't worry about losing a high bit 
for them because binscii files only use the low-bit ascii chars.

To unpack the files, you will need Binscii (or GScii NDA) and Shrinkit
(or GShrinkit if you have a GS). Run your FTP'ed files through Binscii
then through Shrinkit. Binscii is available in EXE format on 
tybalt.caltech.edu (pub/apple2/binscii.exe) so that all you do is type
the following from BASIC: EXE binscii.exe and the program will be
created for you.
-- 
Kevin S. Green / lucifer@world.std.com / {xylogics;uunet}!world!lucifer