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Received: from IndyNet.indy.net (indynet.indy.net [199.3.65.1]) by nacm.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id FAA14000 for <executor@nacm.com>; Wed, 16 Nov 1994 05:05:57 -0800 Received: from indynet.indy.net (x2s5p1.dialin.iupui.edu) by IndyNet.indy.net with SMTP id AA19918 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for <executor@nacm.com>); Wed, 16 Nov 1994 08:04:41 -0500 Message-Id: <199411161304.AA19918@IndyNet.indy.net> X-Sender: preston@indynet.indy.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 08:06:56 -0500 To: executor@nacm.com From: preston@indy.net (Preston J. Tuchman) Subject: Re: binhex/compact probs? Sender: Executor-Owner@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >Hiya alls - i've dl's (ok, ftp'd :) a couple of files off of the net to >try to use with executor. For somee of these, I need to use the binHex4.0 >converter in Compact pro, in others, I need to use the binHex5.0 that's >included with exectutor. Occasionally, I'll get a file that I would de >hex with binHex 4.0, and I would get a .sit file - however, unstuffit >refuses to see this file! Any ideas here? Perhaps I should try to use >binHex 5.0 on the file? (though, if 5.0 doesn't like the file - it hangs >the emulator). > >BTW - this is executor running under linux (I'm still stuck in demo mode - >since i can't register till next week sometime - would that be part of the >problem?). > Hi, Daniel: Pretty frustrating, isn't it? I have the same problems, also. Not every file is like that, but I would say close to half of them are. I haven't figured out the answer, either. It has to do with those dang-blasted MAC headers, you know... the data fork, the resource fork, and (of course) [we can't forget] the finder fork. If those headers are NOT intact, the MAC won't see them, properly. I would like to see some kind of program that could generate finder forks.... for example.... Let's say I create a file in Word For Windows and save it as a MAC Word 5.1 file. One would think that one could save it to a MAC formatted disk, put in in a MAC and expect the MAC to recognize the file, right? Well.... that has NOT been MY experience. The MAC will NOT see it as a WORD file... it brings up that dang-blasted "teach text" malarky. So.... what's a mother to do? <grin> What I did was to create a MAC WORD 5.1 file (in a MAC) and save it to a MAC disk. Then I copied the WORD 5.1 file to a DOS formatted disk where the data and finder forks were split off. Those finder forks are 16 bytes long, BTW. I copied the finder fork file and changed the same to the same name as my original Windows file with the proper extension for a finder. I then copied both files to the MAC formatted disk which merged into one MAC WORD file. When I put this diskett into the MAC, the MAC saw it as a WORD 5.1 file and processed it, accordingly. If someone out there has a better way to do this, please share it with us. I am sure there is more than one way to "skin a MAC". Preston J. Tuchman preston@indy.net