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From: maren@astron.mit.edu (Maren Leyla Cooke)
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Subject: Re: binhex/compact probs?
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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!)
