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From: ldcol@pbhyd.PacBell.COM (Larry D Colton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: BinSCII problems with ShrinkIt 1.0
Keywords: binscii, shrinkit
Message-ID: <1329@pbhyd.PacBell.COM>
Date: 9 Mar 89 15:13:19 GMT
Reply-To: ldcol@pbhyd.PacBell.COM (Larry D Colton)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Diego
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There _appears_ to be a problem with the four files in binaries/apple2
that comprise ShrinkIt 1.0.  

I am unable to process them with BinSCII 1.01.  No matter what I do, I
get the error "Invalid prefix syntax."  I have sucessfully down loaded 
and processed all the recent 2e programs with no problems (HyperC, Mad
Apple Forth, etc) so I know there is no interface problems between my
system, and either the net or my apple.

Even though it should make no difference, I renamed the 4 downloaded 
files, and then removed the net headers, all to no avail.  I was also
able to use BinSCII to convert and unconvert other files on the same
disk, so I know there is no problem with the disk, or bitmap, etc.

David, while the interface is not fancy, it is functional.  The fact 
that I was able to process other files rules out interface problems
(I HOPE!).  I did notice that after receiving there error message,
subsequent attempts returned MLI error $50.  Should not BinSCII close
all files when it encounters an error?

If anyone has any suggestions as to what might be the problem, I will
be most appreciative.

Thanks
--Larry



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Larry Colton                {att,bellcore,sun,ames,pyramid}!pacbell!ldcol