Re: Forked files and Shrinkit

[Eric Shepherd <sheppy@sheppyware.net>]

in article 2bt75.82$RW9.524344@dca1-nnrp1.news.digex.net, Frank Townsend at
ftownsen@iamdigex.net wrote on 7/1/00 2:14 PM:

> Method 1:  Use NCSA Mosaic running on Mac LCII to save SHK file directly to
> a ProDOS formatted disk

This won't work because Mac OS adds resource forks to files whenever they're
written to a ProDOS disk (this is actually correctish behavior, under GS/OS
rules, but makes ProDOS 8 cranky).

> Method 2:  Use NCSA Mosaic running on Mac LCII to save SHK file to Mac drive
> and use ProType to remove "fork."

I don't know what ProType is. :)

> Method 3:  Use Win98 to save SHK file to Windows hard drive, and use
> TransMac to copy to a Mac formatted disk.  Then copy to LCII, and use
> ProType, etc.

Same problem.

> Method 4:  Use Win98 to save SHK file to Windows hard drive.  Then use
> CuteFTP to upload file to Mac LCII (which is on a local TCP/IP Ethernet
> network) which is running the NCSA FTP server (a part of NCSA Telnet 2.7b4).
> Then use ProType to process file and copy to ProDOS disk

No idea why this works.

The ideal solution is to write the file onto a Mac HFS disk, and use either
a IIgs (and GS-ShrinkIt, in that case) or use a ProDOS 8 HFS disk reading
utility (I can't name any offhand, but I know there are a couple of them) to
read the file off the Mac floppy.


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