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Re: binhex/compact probs?



Another thing you might try is simply opening the forkless files from 
within Word.  Recently i had occasion to bring files from a NeXT where
i had edited them under Executor, and did it via FTP which left the 
resource fork behind (if i had used HFS_XFER and a floppy, the resource
fork might not have been lost, i'm not sure).  Once on the Mac, though, 
i opened Word (which you can do either by clicking on another Word file 
or on the app itself), and used file/open (in the menu) to open the 
forkless file.  A new resource fork must be magically created at this 
point, because the file came up as happily as anything, formats 'n' a'.

It's worth a try, at any rate.

-- Maren.


p.s.  i second the motion to digestify the list -- traffic 
is getting up there!  A FAQ, as recently suggested, would also 
be great, and would presumably address the issue i presented 
not long ago (in an embarassingly-double-spaced posting caused 
by mailing a multi-line text-file out of NeXTmail, oops!) 
regarding a list of what works and what doesn't.