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File Transfer Help
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Okay... This is the hardest part. If you can get suitcases and AFM files
from the Macintosh to your Amiga then you're laughin'...
METHODS OF TRANSFER:
1) Modem. Simple but effective. OK, not so simple. But still effective. If
you are not versed in telecommunications, skip to the next part.
We can use simple terminal programs on each end with some kind of standard
file transfer protocol (XMODEM, etc.) but remember: Fonts should be transfered
using MacBinary XMODEM or MacBinary ZMODEM or MacBinary whatever. This is
selectable on the Macintosh end. .AFM files (which are really text files)
should be transfered as PURE (no translation) or TEXT (simple text
translation) files.
We can make archives before transfer, of course. Does LHArc exist for the
Macintosh? If not, try StuffIt. StuffIt (Raymond Lau, Shareware) is a
Macintosh file archiver that makes .SIT archives. This is what UnStuffIt
is used for: to un-archive files archived with StuffIt on the Mac. The
syntax is simple:
1.SYS:> UnStuffIt options archivename.SIT
The options are:
l: View contents
v: View with file dates
x: Extract all files
VERY IMPORTANT UNSTUFFIT NOTES: .SIT archives MUST be transfered in
MacBinary format like fonts are supposed to be. And like the docs for UnSIT
say: RLE decompression doesn't work! Unfortunately, this means you'll have
to disable compression altogether when making the .SIT archive. This is the
only way to ensure reliable transfer (I had some bug reports from this
thing; AFMs for mono-spaced typefaces were really trashed unless compression
was disabled.)
2) Disk transfer. If you own Mac-2-DOS (CCS) or A-MAX II (ReadySoft) and
have a Macintosh 800K disk drive, you can read Mac disks and copy the files
to Amiga disks easily. The same translation rules apply as for modem
transfer: Use MacBinary for .SIT archives or font suitcases, and TEXT for
AFM files. Refer to the docs for A-MAX or Mac-2-DOS for the details.
3) Disk transfer through MS-DOS. Yes, Macintosh machines can read and write
MS-DOS disks (At least the current ones can.) And if you have CrossDOS
(Consultron) or MessyDOS (Olaf Seibert, Public Domain) you can of course
read the same disks.
A recent tidbit available on the Mac is a DOS Mounter; an INIT that lets a
Mac with a FDHD drive read MS-DOS disks from the Macintosh desktop or any
Mac application. If you have access to a Mac like this, simply copy the
suitcases, AFMs, or .SIT archives to an MS-DOS disk and read them on your
Amiga through CrossDOS or MessyDOS.
Hope that helped somewhat.