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- From: msi@ESD.3Com.COM (Mark Isfeld)
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- Subject: Re: Trouble with mcvert Unix util
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- Date: 27 Jul 92 19:42:18 GMT
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- breck@ganzer.ecs.umass.edu writes:
-
- >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?
-
- I am pretty sure I have done this and have little trouble. It is VERY important
- to do the FTP's for MacBinary Files that use the Resource fork, in
- MacBinary Format. In other words you cannot do the same FTP download
- if the file has any needed information in the resource fork.
-
- Well OK, I'm not sure that downloading a .cpt file in normal Binary
- mode works, but I know things work well if you download in MacBinary
- format. Most FTP programs have a MacBinary format, including NCSA
- Telnet, Xferit, and Fetch.
-
- If you are using MacBinary then I cannot help unless you are using
- BYU/NCSA Telnet between 2.4.13 and 2.4.19. Somewhere in there was
- a bug with the file information getting shifted by one word or so.
- 2.4.19 works fine.
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