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From: dcw@athena.mit.edu (David C. Whitney)
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Subject: Re: binaries
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Date: 29 May 89 22:55:28 GMT
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In article <2057@loral.UUCP> hlb@loral.UUCP writes:
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>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.

You may combine the parts into one text file before running them
through BinSCII, but it isn't required. BinSCII decodes parts and
inserts the data in the proper place in the proper file, so you can
specify files to decode in any order you like. I prefer to combine the
text files on the Unix system and then decode the whole file all at
once. It's much easier to deal with.

Dave Whitney	A junior in Computer Science at MIT
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I wrote Z-Link & BinSCII. Send me bug reports. I use a //GS. Send me Tech Info.
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