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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Path: sparky!uunet!tcsi.com!pbuck
- From: pbuck@tcs.com (Peter Buckner)
- Subject: Mac <-> A/UX file transfers
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.203910.7011@tcsi.com>
- Keywords: binary file conversion
- Sender: news@tcsi.com
- Organization: Teknekron Communications, Inc
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 20:39:10 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- What am I missing? I'm trying to upgrade to A/UX 2.0.1 (I've been out
- of the country for awhile) and I cannot get the checksums to match.
-
- I ftp a copy from aux.support.apple.com & it sits on my Sparc. Checksum is
- okay. Since my Mac and Sparc are separated by 8 miles I dial into the Sparc
- and download the 9M onto my Mac (5 hour phone call, fortunately in my "local"
- calling area). Look at the file under A/UX and the checksums fail:
-
- I've used White Knight with filtering & MacBinary turned off.
- I've used Zterm with filtering & MacBinary turned off.
- I've downloaded onto a Mac disk under MacOS.
- I've downloaded onto a Unix disk in 24-bit mode of A/UX. (still using a Mac
- application, since I haven't connected the modem up under A/UX yet.)
-
- When I look at the binary which was downloaded onto a UNIX disk (/tmp) I see
- an Apple Single file, so I fcnvt -d, yielding two files, but the data file
- doesn't match the checksum.
-
- When I copy from a Mac partition to a Unix partition, I've tried not touching
- the finder attributes (sum fails). I've tried changing finder attributes to
- "BIN ", "A/UX" (sum is different, but still fails). In most every case, the
- resulting file is recognized as a compressed file, sometimes it decompresses
- okay, but in that case, cpio fails to complete (fortunately I'm not doing this
- in the root directory for these tests.)
-
- I've just written the file, using bar, to a number of floppies which I'll
- transfer via suntar to my mac later tonight.
-
- Am I missing something here?
- --
- -Peter Buckner pbuck@tcsi.com
-