Re: Apple.support.com archiving

[hurry@imap2.asu.edu]

On 18 Nov 1996 03:41:05 GMT, Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:
> In article <56ofcj$2mj@strange.dfwmm.net>,
> Martin Gruen <mgruen@chaos.dfwmm.net> wrote:
> >  I'm trying to get HyperCard GS off the apple support FTP site, but to 
> >no avail.  Neither GScii or GSHK can identify the files I've been coming 
> >up with. Do they have some wierd format of compression and are using the 
> >wrong extension at the end of the file name or what?

>    As noted in the comp.sys.apple2 Frequently Asked Questions, these
> files have got an extra 512 bytes at the beginning (#*&@ Macs with
> AppleSingle and MacBinary headers) that need to be stripped off before
> the file is usable.


On the apple2.archive.umich.edu sight, in the directory 
pub/apple2/8bit/util, is a program called macbinary.strip.bsq.  It should 
help.

--
Adam Myrow