Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ogccse!blake!phaedrus
From: phaedrus@blake.acs.washington.edu (Defender of Edgekeep)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Help re BLU on //gs
Keywords: BLU MAKE BINARY II FILE
Message-ID: <257@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 23 Nov 88 03:29:47 GMT
References: <8811220218.AA13645@decwrl.dec.com>
Reply-To: phaedrus@blake.UUCP (Mark VanWinkle)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <8811220218.AA13645@decwrl.dec.com> shatara@islnds.dec.com (Chris Shatara, 229-7740) writes:
>I am running into a problem making a binary II file with BLU versions 2.26 and
>V2.29.  I have tried both and get the same problem.  When I select
>	Make Binary II file
>from the main menu, I am then asked to give the source and destination. When
>I type in, for example, /disk.2/ for both the source and detination, I get an
>the following error:
>	MLI ERROR $47
>	Duplicate Filename

	You're making the same mistake I was making for a while.  When you
are making a Binary // file, it wants a directory for the source, but a
FILENAME, not a directory, for the destination.  So if you wanted to make
some files into a Binary // file called TESTFILE.BNY on your /disk.2/ volume,
you would type /disk.2 for source and /disk.2/TESTFILE.BNY for destination.
        When you put in /disk.2/ for destination, you're telling ProDOS that
you want to replace the volume directory on /disk.2 with the Binaryy // file
(never a good thing to do... :-) ); the volume directory already exists, of
course, so the MLI returns the "Duplicate Filename" error.
        Hope this helps.
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       Mark VanWinkle (phaedrus@blake.acs.washington.edu)
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