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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!uwasa.fi!hv
- From: hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama)
- Subject: Re: ftp'd files won't binhex or anything!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.075058.18323@uwasa.fi>
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
- References: <bondir.40.0@vaxb.gbus.virginia.edu> <1992Jul29.113305.6945@cerritos.edu>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 07:50:58 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1992Jul29.113305.6945@cerritos.edu> jacobs@cerritos.edu writes:
- >In article <bondir.40.0@vaxb.gbus.virginia.edu>, bondir@vaxb.gbus.virginia.edu writes:
- >> What am I doing wrong? The only files I download via ftp from sites that I
- >> can "revive" are ones that end in .hqx. These I download on an IBM to a
- >> DOS floppy, read it on a Mac with a SuperDrive and AccessPC, deBinHex with
- >> CompactPro, and then either unstuffit or uncompact, no problem. Files endin
- >> in anything else, even in familiar old .SIT, I can neither unstuff nor
- >> deBinHex. I always get in ftp after typing "binary" first. What am I doing>> wrong?
- >>
- > I have the same problem with my system. Apparently any file other than
- >those in .hqx format are actually a Mac file, even while being downloaded. Thi
- >even applies to files in MacBinary that all the people with ethernet cards in
- >their Macs love. As far as I know, those of us who have to download through a
- >pc have know other option but to look for files in .hqx, anything else doesn't
- >survive the transfer through an ibm.
- >
- >If any of you wizards out ther have a solution, please let us know,
- >
- >Karl
-
- Well, the files you can find from garbo.uwasa.fi (or nic.funet.fi)
- ending like .sea, .sit, .cpt etc are really MacBinary files. If you
- can't download them using MacBinary protocol then you must download
- them using normal 'binary'. If using MacBinary they come right
- through. If not then you must use a program called MacBinary than you
- can find as BinHexed from our mac/comm dir. That program puts the data
- and resource forks where Mac wants them to be.
-
- -harri-
- --
- ///// Harri Valkama (hv@uwasa.fi, NeXTmail: hv@bacall.uwasa.fi)
- ///// University of Vaasa, P.O.Box 700, 65101 VAASA, Finland
- ///// Telephone:+358 61 3248364 fax:+358 61 3248465
- ///// Anonymous ftp site moderator at garbo.uwasa.fi (128.214.87.1)
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