greg@hoss.unl.edu (Hammer T. H.) (11/19/90)
... zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) writes: > Does someone want to write a C program that will work on UNIX boxes >so that once a file is sciibin'ed you can run the program and it will >list the files and their sizes of the NuFX archive? > That way if I see something on comp.binaries.apple2 and save it, I don't >have to dl it if I don't like it. > If we could unSHRink the TEXT files then it would be even BETTER >so we can read the docs to see if we want it. That would be very nice. I thought there was one out there that did something similar to that, but I don't know its name. If someone can point us out to that program I think we'd both like to know. Also, occasionally I find a file that's been BinSCIIed but has only a .bsc extension, not .bsq. Since I sciibin the files, then ftp to a mac, then xmodem to a BBS (easiest setup for me, especially with the long hours I have when I have access to the mac) I sometimes end up with programs with a TXT filetype on the remote system when they are supposed to be BIN or SYS or something else, and not packed. A way to sciibin a file into a Binary II envelope would be very nice to have. Then I wouldn't need to worry about filetypes getting lost in the shuffle. A kind of "BinSCII -> Binary II" converter. Packing is not necessary, all I want is the Binary II envelope around the file (.BXY extensions ya know). Also, would there be problems in putting a file that is in a Binary II envelope into a Binary II envelope, other than increase in file size? >-- >zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM -- __ _____________ __ \ \_\ \__ __/ /_/ / Do you know what you have done? \greg@hoss.unl.edu/ Do you know what you've begun? \_\ \_\|_|/_/ /_/ --Genesis, _Domino_, _Invisible Touch_