Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!reed!kamath
From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re:  text files in prosel
Message-ID: <8705@reed.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 88 06:56:59 GMT
References: <8804071428.aa09386@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>
Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <8804071428.aa09386@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> JDA@NIHCU.BITNET (Doug Ashbrook) writes:
>> me with.  Is there any way to change a BIN file into a SYS file?  Specifically
>
>If you have a //gs, the file 87-00232 on APPLE2-L will allow you to
>change the file type.  You do know how to get files from APPLE2-L, I
>hope  :-)
>
>J. Douglas Ashbrook                                  (301) 496-5181

Well, i don't know about that program, but here's what you have to worry
about:

SYS files are supposed to load in at $200, and relocate if necessary.
SYS files are *supposed* to exit via a prodos quit call

So. . .  If it so happens that you have a BIN file that runs from $200,
-or- is relocatable, *and* it exits correctly. . .
then

bload file,a$xxxx,l$yyyy
delete file
bsave file,tsys,a$xxxx,l$yyyy

You may be able to remove the xxx and yyy, but I'm not sure, as you are
creating a new file. . .

Sean Kamath

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