Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!skid.ps.uci.edu!silver From: silver@skid.ps.uci.edu (Silver Singer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: LOTS of questions... Message-ID: Date: 25 Jun 91 22:31:43 GMT Lines: 52 Nntp-Posting-Host: skid.ps.uci.edu I've been doing lots of downloading recently, and am having some problems with many of the things I've downloaded. Maybe someone else can help me out..? My system consists of a ROM 3 IIgs, with TWGS, and a 2meg Juice Plus memory card. The base part of the problem, is that the terminal program that I have, ASCII Express' MouseTalk, seems to be alright but not superior for downloading. The only method I find even halfway reliable is to receive in the binary mode, Christenson, 1K blocks. I send from my Unix host using the command 'sx -bk', and usually have varied success. I usually have to break down shrinkit'd and binscii'd into the smallest pieces they can be, 16,782 characters long. For long files, this can be annoying. For anyone with MouseTalk, what do you use to download? I have a couple files from the tybalt UPLOADS directory that aren't binscii'd, so I can't break them up, and they stubbornly won't download, no matter what I try. It's frustrating to try to download a 3000 block file and have it die at 2400 or so. In case there is no better mode to use, I'm stuck. Is there a Unix utility which automatically breaks a large file up into chunks, so that I don't have to do it manually? I know about sciibin, and I use it, but I run into the same problem as above..it doesn't always download properly, and there's no way that I know of to break the file into smaller pieces. So I'm stuck usually breaking a 300K file into 16K pieces and downloading each separately. Help! Now, as to some files I *have* downloaded...I tried downloading several other terminal programs, like SnowTERM and FreeTERM, but haven't managed to get them to operate. If they don't just freeze the screen up, they don't function properly. How should I set these up? I just downloaded One Arm Battle, and when I click on it from the system disk, it loads for a few seconds, then kicks me into the monitor. What's going on? I have system disk version 5.0.3, if that helps. And for that matter, how do I make a program on 3.5" self-starting? Or am I stuck putting the system disk in before I use anything? I downloaded ZLaunch, but I can't get it to work except by putting in the system disk in first, which really is defeating the purpose of a program launcher. I think this is enough questions for a start. Someone please help! -Chris --- \ //\-\ Chris the Silver Singer silver@skid.ps.uci.edu \/o \/-\ (Silver Singer the Silver Unicorn) / _) \-\ May the ground run swiftly beneath your feet... (__/ )____\-\ And someday find your dreams are within your reach.