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From: neighbor@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Jeffrey Alan Ding)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: BinSCII problems with ShrinkIt 1.0
Keywords: binscii, shrinkit
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Date: 10 Mar 89 06:43:09 GMT
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In article <1329@pbhyd.PacBell.COM> ldcol@pbhyd.PacBell.COM (Larry D Colton) writes:
>
>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.
>
>--Larry

The problem is with the filename in the four files.  The second line of
the BinSCII'd files after the FiLeStArT.... line is the filename it
saves to disk.

In this case, the line starts like this , "MSHRINK10.BNY   ".  The "M" in the
beginning specifies the LENGTH of the file name, 13 characters.  But the
actual length of "SHRINK10.BNY" without the spaces is 12.  This is the
problem. You either have to change the "M" to an "L" or change the space at
the end of the name to any valid ProDOS name character, like ".".

So when you make the modification, the line will look like any of these two
examples:

  1: "LSHRINK10.BNY   ".........
  2: "MSHRINK10.BNY.  ".........

Change all four files to reflect the same.  You should then be able to
use BinSCII to unpack.

neighbor@csd4.milw.wisc.edu