NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/comp/sys/cbm/5321

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From: [e-mail] (Michael W. Kelley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: .SFX on 64?
Date: 5 Jan 1993 11:26:36 GMT
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In a previous article, [e-mail] (Mark Shepherd) says:

>
>I recently tried downloading the Novaterm 9.4 files recently,
>converted them over to 64 format on my 1541, and when I load
>them, I basically get zip.  .SFX format files have worked with
>me before, although with smaller archives.  Is this a memory
>problem?  Or is .SFX strictly a 128 cs-dos by-product?  Has
>anyone written code which will unpack .SFX files on the 64?
>
>Answers to any or all of these would be appreciated.
>
>Mark Shepherd ([e-mail])
>
>BTW, I tried removing all fastloaders, attachments, extra
>printers and the like.  Still no dice.
>
>
>
>
.SFX files can be dissolved on either a 128 or a 64 (or a 128 in
64 mode), which is what makes them so much nicer, not to mention
the LZH archiving makes them more compact than ARC does.
I presume when you say you conveerted them, you transferred them
from an MS-DOS to a C64. If you used BBR, you shouldn't have turned
ASCII translation on.  If you didn't use BBR, then all you had to
do was filecopy them to a CBM format disk and load and run.
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