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- From: bruss@cs.ucsd.edu (Brian Russ)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: White Knight (Re: You cannot do xxx to file yyy ...)
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- Date: 27 Aug 92 05:08:21 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.125507.25637@bradford.ac.uk> <1992Aug13.130626.25895@bradford.ac.uk> <4509@news.duke.edu>
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- In article <4509@news.duke.edu> king@acpub.duke.edu (King Rhoton) writes:
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- >From king Thu Aug 13 11:15:06 1992
- >To: /afs/acpub/users5/king/.article
- >
- >I've seen this same kind of problem with, most notably, White Knight when
- >receiving a file as MacBinary. When downloading to the desktop, it seems that
- >the MacBinary file gets put there, and then converted to a Mac file, but the
- >MacBinary file's icon is still there (and the un-binaried file's isn't).
- >Trying to do anything with that icon results in a "cannot be found" message.
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- So it's not me! Every time I download (via Kermit, as it turns
- out) I end up with a misnamed file, and an icon that can't be used.
- What I do is close the folder and re-open it -- the icon is now correct.
- Is there any reason why this is the case? This wasn't the case ehn
- I used Versaterm ...
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- Brian Russ
- CSE Department, UC San Diego
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