Re: Apple.support.com archiving

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

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.

Nathan Mates

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