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- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 11:41:01 -0500
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- From: preston@indy.net (Preston J. Tuchman)
- 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!)
- >regarding a list of what works and what doesn't.
- >
-
- This may work quite well for WORD. I have found, however, that other
- applications (can't remember which ones, right now)don't necessairly work
- that way. Just to give you an example.... some of the .HQX files I download
- aren't recognized by the MAC and the .HQX file to be binhexed. Some of the
- .HQX files can be decoded using the DOS version of Binhex.... but when the
- decoded file is copied to the MAC... the MAC doesn't recognize the format of
- the file. It's frustrating, to say the least.
-
- Preston
- Preston J. Tuchman
- preston@indy.net
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