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From: jon@cisunx.UUCP (Jon M. Pearsall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: //e enhancement
Message-ID: <7462@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 88 19:17:36 GMT
References: <8803021650.aa14255@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>
Reply-To: jon@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Jon M. Pearsall)
Organization: The Zets
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In article <8803021650.aa14255@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> heacock@UKANVAX.BITNET writes:
>I have an older, unenhanced //e, and I'm having a lot of trouble
>getting anything I have downloaded from APPLE2-L to work.  It's
>possible I'm doing something stupid (or failing to do something
>obvious), but I am inclined to think it is simply that I need to
>upgrade my machine.

Do you mean that when you try to BRUN the execed file that it often times loads into the machine and then drops you into monitor mode or freezes up? I have alotof trouble with those kind of things happening with software I get from APPL2-L
too.  What the problem usually is (90% of the time) is that the new file created
when you execed the executioner text was either saved as a BIN file when it
should have be a SYS or else its the other way around (should be a SYS but was
saved as a BIN).  I don't know why this happens but it does.  What you need
is a program from APPLE2-L called CFT (Change File Type).  You shouldn't have
any trouble getting this program to run when you exec it.  Just brun it and
it asks you for the file name that you want to change and the new type for it
(BIN, SYS, BAS, TXT, etc.).  Just choose the type and most of the time take the
default starting address it then prompts you for ($1000, $2000).  Some times
this has to be changed too if the file is a BIN.  For example: the starting
address for Kermit 3.79 is 4096.  

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