Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!ucsdhub!sdcsvax!ucsd!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: binaries Message-ID: <8905281342.aa10896@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 28 May 89 18:36:56 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 25 >When binaries files are ascii encoded with binscii and come in >several parts are they downloaded and converted separately or >merged before downloading? If so, how? Thanks. If you concatonate ALL the BinSCII'd parts into one file (in any order) then BinSCII will figure it all out and create the original binary file. If you have the ASCII parts in several files, you'll need to have BinSCII decode all of them before you really have a complete binary file (even though a file will be created after the first part is decoded, some of the binary will be missing until ALL the parts have been decoded. I generally stip the mail headers and any extraneous text with the host's editor, concatonate the parts, and download one file. That procedure downloads the minimum number of bytes. If you're using a system without a convenient host editor, just download everything and let BinSCII discard the headers and other unnecessary lines. 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] (203) 486-5246 [FAX] (203) 486-2489 [PHONE] 41 49N 72 15W [ICBM] -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)