Re: Mac fork stipper program MIA (needed for A2s)

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shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) wrote:
>Amitai Schlair (amitai.schlair@usa.net) wrote:
>: There's a Mac program called puriTEXT that removes resource forks from Mac
>: files of type TEXT or PICT (I think that's the restriction) that ought to
>: be in the same info-mac subdir. If you download binscii'ed files onto the
>: Mac anyway, then that's not too much of a restriction.
>
>Ya know, at first I was content with the idea that anyone who asks Nathan
>about this "problem" deserves all the non help they get. But I've seen so
>many inane "solutions" that I can't take it any more. Anyone who wants to
>know a foolproof procedure to get files downloaded on a Mac to a II in a
>usable format can mail me for details. After setting up suffix mapping and
>post processing in Fetch, I was able to download files from ground with
>names ending with .sdk, .shk, and .bxy, and copy them to a ProDOS floppy and
>sneaker it to my IIgs and get Shrinkit 3.4 to open them.

Randy, why don't you just use GSHK, the GS specific Shrinkit, to
open the files?  The GS handles resource forks fine, if you want
to know.  That's much simpler than your round-about Mac based
"solution."

If you can do it on the GS, then do it.  There's no need to imply
that it does not have the capability.  :)

-Scott G.