Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: BINSCII 1.0.2 problem Message-ID: <8903151416.aa16460@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 15 Mar 89 18:49:59 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 46 >I am having a problem getting binscii 1.0.2 to work. I just received it >from apple2-l, downloaded and execed it. When, at the basic prompt, >I type > >]-binscii1.0.2 > >the program repeatedly types the basic prompt and finally crashes into >the monitor at 77FE (bank 00) > >I repeated the download procedure several times just to make sure it wasn't >some download problem. > >When I execed the file I got a 9 block file named binscii1.0.2 That size is correct. The EXEC procedure seems to have been okay. >I am running an Apple //GS w/ 1.25 meg RAM (128K used as a rom disk >with a RamKeeper, and the rest available for /RAM5) > >Can someone explain what is going wrong here? (I'd really like to get >Shrink It 1.1 running, but since I can't get it out of binscii format....) > >Oh yes, I used Kermit 3.85 for the download. Funny, I downloaded with Kermit 3.85 on my decripit (unenhanced) //e, quit to the BASIC prompt (had to BYE and reload BASIC.SYSTEM -- a Kermit bug?) and -BINSCII1.0.2 worked fine. Did you have PREFIX set to the same volume BINSCII was in (I don't think that should make a difference, but I believe I saw another report similar to yours , so something peculiar seems to be going on)? DO report questions/problems/curiosities to the author (you're more likely to get a quick fix that way) David Whitney Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) According to the American Facsimile Association, more than half the calls from Japan to the U.S. are fax calls. FAX it to me at: 1-203-486-5246