Tabakal@UB.CC.UMICH.EDU (03/10/89)
I would like to make a suggestion to everyone who is now using BINSCII.
It's great that the program does not force you to know the order of the parts
that you have to unpack. On the other hand, it's a pain when you
get lots of programs that need to be downloaded and you don't have a
way to refer to them that differentiates one from another.
Therefore, please continue to use the naming scheme of having part 1/2
part 2/2 [ 1 of 2 ] in the subject or imbedded text. I have no idea
if I have all of the pieces of some of the recent uploads.
Thank you very much, and keep those uploads coming. BINSCII and SHRINKIT
are great additions to the shareware/PD world.
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Todd A. Bakal IBM is not a necessary evil.
U of M Apple User's Group IBM is not necessary.
Ann Arbor, Michigan -- Ted Nelson
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UUCP: ...!uunet!ub.cc.umich.edu!tabakal BITnet: Tabakal@UMICHUBblochowi@cat22.CS.WISC.EDU (Jason Blochowiak) (03/11/89)
The version of BinSCII (for the //gs) will (attempt) to verify the integrity of a decoded file. I'm writing the APW (shell utility) version of BinSCII right now, and will port it to the desktop later on. At this point, it properly encodes files, and is about 20% faster than BinSCII 8 (it's 30% faster with a CRC lookup, but the lookup didn't work, so I went back to calculating it - I'm going to try re-installing it after I get the whole schmeel done). I just started on the decoding yesterday (got the framework in). I'm going to try to guarantee integrity by keeping a list of the decoded segments - if there are any gaps (if some of the segments are non-contiguous), then I'll pretty much have to assume that it's non-integral, and warn the user (please note that this list will be kept across input text files, so the alarm won't go off if a particular file's segments are scattered across input files). By the way, I do think that the x/y (xth part out of y parts total) is the best scheme to use. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jason Blochowiak (blochowi@garfield.cs.wisc.edu) "Not your average iconoclast..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) (03/11/89)
From one of the prodos 8 shells (either ecp or davex) I tried to run binscii8 with an argument of the file I wanted to process. When binscii prompted me for the file name, it filled the default with a bunch of blinking punctuation. I dont THINK that is what it is supposed to do... -- 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.