SASQUATCH@ALBION.BITNET ("Kevin O. Lepard 629-5511 x6668", 517) (03/15/89)
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 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. Any help will be _very_ much appreciated. On a totally different topic, can someone tell me what the substansive differences are between ProSEL 8 and ProSEL 16? The only specific question I have at this time is whether or not the incremental backup/restore is something I can legally get and use as a registered ProSEL 8 user or if I need to upgrade to ProSEL 16. Thanks in advance. Kevin Lepard Bitnet: Sasquatch@albion.bitnet
SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) (03/16/89)
>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 <also IIgs>, 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 <dcw@sun-bear.lcs.mit.edu> 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
hentosh@amethyst.bucknell.EDU (03/16/89)
>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 I have downloaded binscii several times from apples-l, and have come across the same problem, but usually the program didn't crash, but just ended 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? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- BITNET: hentosh@amethyst.bucknell.edu ! Disclaimer : "I don't know why I ALPE : RobertH128 ! said that... I think it came from ! the fillings in my rear molars." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) (03/16/89)
When I downloaded BINSCII 1.0.1 the first time, I too had the same problems. I downloaded it a second time and the problem went away. Last nite I downloaded BINSCII 1.0.2 and Kermit 3.85 (thanks Murphy and Dave!!!) and got both working - since my copy of kermit 3.85 was blu/binscii format, and I used BINSCII 1.0.2 on my IIgs I can assure folks that at least some configurations do work. -- Larry W. Virden 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 (614) 864-8817 75046,606 (CIS) ; LVirden (ALPE) ; osu-cis!n8emr!lwv (UUCP) osu-cis!n8emr!lwv@TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (INTERNET) The world's not inherited from our parents, but borrowed from our children.
SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) (03/17/89)
>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? 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
ALBRO@NIEHS.BITNET (03/17/89)
Murph Sewall writes: >(had to BYE and reload BASIC.SYSTEM -- a Kermit bug?) . No, that didn't really mean Kermit walked over BASIC.SYSTEM. It just left a number other than zero in mem loc $800. Poke a zero in there and everything is fine. I would hope that someday Kermit pokes that zero itself when you say EXIT. The NEW command , not to mention LOAD or RUN, needs the zero.
SASQUATCH@ALBION.BITNET ("Kevin O. Lepard 629-5511 x6668", 517) (03/17/89)
Thanks for all the help folks. The problem turned out to be that the file from the Executioner was created as a BIN file at A$1000 rather than a SYS file at A$2000. I checked the text file I downloaded, and the text file specifies a save at A$1000 and then the E00G. Why's it say this? Anyway, I got the file working by doing the following. 1) Download and exec the file. a) if it creates a SYS file you're probably ok b) if it creates a BIN file continue 2) at the basic prompt type ]create binscii,tsys ]bload binscii1.0.2,a$2000 ]bsave binscii,tsys,a$2000,l3640 That will change it to a SYS file that should work, at least it worked for me. BinSCII seems to be working fine, now. Check the length in the bsave statement with a catalog first, because 3640 is from memory (I'm pretty sure it's right, but no point in not being safe, right?) Thanks again. Kevin Lepard Bitnet: Sasquatch@albion.bitnet
SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) (03/18/89)
>Thanks for all the help folks. The problem turned out to be that the >file from the Executioner was created as a BIN file at A$1000 rather than >a SYS file at A$2000. I checked the text file I downloaded, and the >text file specifies a save at A$1000 and then the E00G. > >Why's it say this? Whatever works. I got a -SYS file that works even though the BSAVE is at $1000. I gather the little program invoked by E00G (when it works) alters the start address along with the rest of the directory entry. I've NEVER had a whit of trouble with an Executioner file so I've never bothered to look at it much (My original Executioner program also BSAVE's at $1000 and then E00G makes a SYS file). Then my system downloads blank lines without LF's or pad characters. 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