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- 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?
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- >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".
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-
- Preston J. Tuchman
- preston@indy.net
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