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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: BINSCII 1.0.2 problem
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Date: 16 Mar 89 19:14:52 GMT
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>after sending a number of returns to the screen.  One copy did, however,
>download successfully.  It made a file called Binscii that was of type
>SYS not BIN as the other ones that crashed were.  I suggest changing
>the filetype (I thinks there is a filetype changer on apple2-l still) and
>try running it then.
>
>I noticed at the end of the exec files the same bsave commands.
>Question: Why does one bsave save the file as a BIN and the other as a SYS?

That's odd.  The BINSCII1.0.2 which I received from APPLE2-L DOES make
a SYS file.  Are you missing the E00G (the last line of any Executioner
file which invokes the code that writes the directory entry)?  I wonder
how you lost that?

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