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From: dcw@athena.mit.edu (David C. Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: another binscii question
Keywords: binscii ascii
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Date: 11 Mar 89 21:20:37 GMT
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In article <1263@wpi.wpi.edu> ggray@wpi.wpi.edu (Gary Gray) writes:
>I have a problem with binscii, namely that binscii will not unpack a file
>unless I run it through the text editor in Mouse Talk.  I am getting the
>files by saving them in my directory on our Unix machine and then downloading
>them via Kermit.  What would be in the file that M.T. would filter out and
>that would prevent binscii from doing its job?

It seems to be a bug in Kermit. Apparently Kermit sets the high bit
when downloading text. This is the right thing when downlaoding to DOS
3.3, but the wrong thing when downloading to ProDOS. I've fixed the
problem in BinSCII, but something should be done within Kermit (are
you listening, Ted?).

BTW- does anyone know if posts to Apple2-l get cross-posted to
comp.binaries.apple2 anymore? I sent the new BinSCII to apple2-l, but
I'll send it to cba2 if necessary.


Dave Whitney	A junior in Computer Science at MIT
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