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  1. After all of this is done, you should have the 'BINSCII.SYSTEM'
    program on the disk/directory you EXECd binscii from. To run it,
    type

-BINSCII
That should start it. For now, with no files to decompress, just exit
it. Congratulations, you can now unpack BINSCII files.
8. There are fancier BINSCII decoders, but this one is the only that
can be easily transferred. If you have a GS, you might want to
consider downloading the gsciiplus program from some of the
following ftp sites:
apple2.archive.umich.edu, apple2/gs/archivers/gscii.bsc
apple2.caltech.edu pub/apple2/addons/nda/gscii231.shk
However, to unpack this, you will need a Shrinkit program
(detailed in the next section) to unpack them before you can use
them. Once unpacked, you will need to copy the 'gsciiplus' NDA to
the DESK.ACCS folder inside the SYSTEM folder on your boot GS/OS
disk.

5.12 How do I download and unpack a Shrinkit unpacker?

Ok, getting and downloading binscii is the hard part, promise. Because
binscii takes care of the worry of filetypes, end of lines and the
like, you don't really need to worry about those problems again.

Which Shrinkit program you should download depends on which model of
Apple II you have. These programs are listed in increasing order of
features and better user interfaces, so Unshrink ][+ will run on
pretty much anything that you got binscii running on, while
GS-Shrinkit 1.1 will only run Apple IIGSs. Apple IIGS programs can
have file formats known as 'forked files' which ProDOS 8 and regular
Shrinkit cannot unpack, so if you wish to download and unpack most GS
programs, GS-Shrinkit is required. (The exceptions are demos and the
like distributed as a shrunk copy of a disk)

At least an Apple ][+ with 64K running ProDOS:

Your only option is Unshrink ][+ and Autounshrink, available
via ftp from

apple2.caltech.edu, pub/apple2/ARCHIVERS/unshk2plus.bsc
apple2.caltech.edu, pub/apple2/ARCHIVERS/autounshk.bsq

At least an Enhanced Apple //e with 128K, or //c, IIc+, IIGS:

Although you can run Unshrink ][+, Shrinkit 3.4 is far better.
Get
apple2.caltech.edu, pub/apple2/ARCHIVERS/shrinkit34.bsc

At least an Apple IIGS with at least 1.5MB Ram, running GS/OS System
5.0.4 or later, hard drive recommended:

GS-Shrinkit is the best choice, though if you spend most of
your time in ProDOS 8, you may also want to get Shrinkit 3.4 as
well as detailed above. You can get GS-Shrinkit from
apple2.caltech.edu, pub/apple2/ARCHIVERS/gshk11.bsc

Download the appropriate file(s) to your computer, and unpack them
with the binscii decoder.