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- From: bondir@vaxb.gbus.virginia.edu
- Subject: Re: ftp'd files won't binhex or anything!
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- Organization: Darden Center, University of Virginia
- References: <bondir.40.0@vaxb.gbus.virginia.edu> <1992Jul29.113305.6945@cerritos.edu> <1992Jul31.075058.18323@uwasa.fi>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:39:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul31.075058.18323@uwasa.fi> hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama) writes:
- >From: hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama)
- >Subject: Re: ftp'd files won't binhex or anything!
- >Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 07:50:58 GMT
-
- >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.
-
- What about files that end in _bin? I can't do ANYTHING with them, whether I
- download/ftp them as binary or not!!
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