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- From: breck@ganzer.ecs.umass.edu ()
- Subject: Trouble with mcvert Unix util
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.173913.620@risky.ecs.umass.edu>
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:39:13 GMT
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- I picked up a bunch of stuff from sumex recently, converted it from
- .hqx to .bin with mcvert on my Unix system and downloaded it to my
- Mac. Among the things were some self extracting archives. When I
- tried to execute them to extract them I got errors about available
- memory, so I checked the memory settings in Get Info. After a long
- pause, the Get Info box appeared. Recommended was n/a, Current was
- zeroK. Setting Current to a couple hundred K didn't help. Some of
- them were Compact Pro SEAs and I was able to extract them with CP.
- Then I tried downloading the .hqx versions, debinhexed them on the Mac
- and started them. They extracted without complaint, and the memory
- settings were normal.
-
- So what's going on here? Is mcvert not creating the Get Info details
- or resource fork correctly? I don't have any trouble mcverting .sit
- or .cpt files and decompressing them on the Mac, but then they only
- use the data fork. Am I leaving out some command line option for
- mcvert? Does mcvert really implement the Macbinary standard right?
- --
- Liam Breck breck@zonker.ecs.umass.edu
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