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Re: D/Ling w/ Executor DOS
In your message (Sat, 6 May 95 23:22:00 UTC), you wrote:
>Ernst,
>
> >I never have any problems. What I do is use BINHEX 5.0 (as supplied with
> >Executor). From the 'file' menu choose 'Download->Application' and specify
> >the source of the file. This will create the proper forks. It works with
> >every file I ever D/L'ed.
>
>Ok, well, whenever I do that it starts to work and then just stops. It's
>like it totally locks up or something. I notice, also, that when it starts
>it says that where it should list the creator and the type it just lists
>garbage character. As I said before, I think that something with the header
>of the file is messing up, though I don't know what. <sigh> Could it have
>anything to do with the fact that I am d/l'ing from AOL on this IBM to get
>the stuff? (I can't figure how that would affect anything, but I figger I
>should ask <g>)
>
>BTW, thanx for your help!
>
>||||| Jesse D. Sightler |||||
AHA! I know the cause of that! That's because the file has DOS
or Unix line termination and not Mac file termination. If you are
running the Linux version, you can convert them easily:
tr '\012' '\015' < crashing.sit.hqx > no-crash.sit.hqx
This may not be a problem with DOS line termination which as the CR
the Mac requires. Linux does not.
Tim.
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