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- From: graham@ug.cs.dal.ca (Michael Graham)
- Subject: tutorial - mcvert - bounced mail
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- Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:34:24 GMT
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- To: ctrbdo@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu
- Subject: Re: mcvert, binhex, file forks tutorial
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
-
- In article <C011uA.5zA@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu> you write:
- >A brief tutorial for a new mac owner, please:
- >
- >I am a proud papa of a bouncing baby performa 600CD, and have in
- >anticipation been grabbing software from the net. These files are
- >typically in .hqx format. I read that the program mcvert can run on
- >my sun (and indeed, it does) to convert .hqx files to MacBinary
- >format. The man page reads mentions data and resource forks, and data
- >and rsrc files. Ok, here's the question:
- >
- >If I take my .hqx file(s) and convert to MacBinary and somehow manage
- >to get these files to my mac, are they ready to go or do the
- >MacBinary files require yet another round of translation to become
- >executables? And, what's the deal with the forks? Just what is a
- >fork, and what is it doing in my files...
-
- Yup - they're ready to go. If you are using telnet make sure that MacBinary is
- turned on. Forks...well I'm not a techie, but basically mac programs have
- a resource fork (menu defs, buttons, strings, diolog boxes, etc) and a data
- fork (code (I think)). Nothing to worry about.
-
- >Here's what I observed when I ran mcvert on umoria (after all, I was
- >raised on rogue, so moria seemed like a good first choice... :-)
- >
- > % mcvert umoria-55.hqx
- > Converting Moria_1.0.cpt type = "PACT", author = "CPCT"
- > Created Tue Dec 29 09:21:23 1992
- > Modified Tue Dec 29 09:21:23 1992
- >
- > -- and sure enough --
- >
- > % ls -l Moria*
- > -rw-rw---- 1 ctrbdo 330240 Dec 29 09:21 Moria_1.0.cpt.bin
- >
- >So now what do I do?
-
- get the file onto your mac and decompress the game with Compact Pro.
- Compact Pro is a MUST HAVE program for the mac since almost all files are
- compressed with it. there should be a file at sumex in the util dir called
- compact-pro.sea or something. sea=self extracting archive. So get that, run
- it through mcvert, download it to your mac, & decompress it (just double click)
-
- tell me if you have any problems.
- mike
-
- p.s. - you should download some quicktime movies - considering all of the
- disk space you have or CD space...you lucky..... :)
-
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