Re: *sigh* ...Oh the frustration

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Mac Guillet" <mac@solarwinds.com> wrote in message
news:rlk47.704066$166.14604376@news1.rdc1.bc.home.com...
> > Now that you have a Mac, go to the Ground archive, go into the
> > Mac directory and download ProDOSifier and ProTYPE...both
> > of those programs set Apple II filetypes on the Mac end and
> > makes it easier for the Mac to know what to do with the file
> > when it copies it over to a ProDOS disk.
>
> Alright - I am off and searching for 'em...
>
> > The Mac likes to add a resource fork to all files it copies over
> > to a ProDOS disk so it can keep track of the original filetype
> > that it was on the Mac end.  If it's a ProDOS filetype, it won't
> > add the resource fork...or at least it's not supposed to...
>
> Well...I think it is losing it when it brings it from my PC disks...it
> tags them all as text documents (which drives me up the wall)
> and doesn't want to listen as I try to tell it otherwise. I took a
> MacBinary file over and it refused to run it - said it was text...
> *sigh*
>
> I wound up using TransMac to write it to a Mac formatted disk
> on my PC but there MUST be a much easier way to reassign it...
>
> Thanks,
> Mac.
>

I have had the same problem.  TransMac seems to do the job
but every now and again it too doesn't translate the file properly.
I have a .SIT file that Stuffit won't read.

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