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

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

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. I also set up suffix
mapping/post processing to handle files ending with .bsc, but since all the
files of this kind which I could find on ground had article headers in front
of the binscii code, the binscii decoder in my post processor app was fooled
into not decoding them. But the text files containing the code were perfectly
accessible to ProDOS 8 after doing the sneaker thing to my IIgs.

The bottom line is this: there is a method which guarantees that files destined
for your 8 bit II will be usable before ever leaving your Mac, and I can give
it to anyone who asks.
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Randy Shackelford
shack@southwind.net