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

[amitai.schlair@usa.net (Amitai Schlair)]

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.

Hope this helps. (My first post -- just got a //e and monitor for $5!!!)

In article <5fcmub$jf2$1@darla.visi.com>, nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)
wrote:

> Ok, except for a very few extremely lucky types, Macs *do* have a
> problem with adding a resource fork to a download, making it
> unreadable by ProDOS 8 programs. Several months ago, a program was
> found that could remove the resource fork from the mac side, which
> the following URL:
> 
> ftp://mirrors.aol.com/mir02/INFOMAC/info-mac/disk/file-stripper-utilities.hqx
> 
>    Someone reported via email to me just now that that program has
> disappeared. I checked the ftp site above, and two infomac mirrors
> (umich.edu and grind), and the file is most definitely not there, and
> nothing readily apparent as a renaming catches my eye.
> 
>    Anyone want to help every Mac user who suffers thru the quirks of
> the Macs with a replacement util?
> 
> Nathan Mates
> 
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