Re: problem solved (Re: Sun to Mac to //c and back)

[Robert Jensen <bob_jensen@jhuapl.edu>]

In article <5084re$mi5@europa.frii.com> Randy Shackelford,
shack@deimos.frii.com writes:
>I jumped on info-mac to see if there was any app to strip the resource
fork
>off a file. In the disk directory, I found the very thang. It's the file
>
><ftp://mirrors.aol.com/mir02/INFOMAC/info-mac/disk/file-stripper-utili
ies.hqx>
>
>It has a drag and drop app for stripping the resource fork and another
to do
>the same for the data fork. There's even one to strip the name resource,
>maybe that would cause files copied to DOS disks to not be forked, who
knows.
>Here's the procedure for getting a Mac downloaded file to work in ProDOS
8:
>
>download it
>drag the file's icon onto the resource fork stripper app icon
>copy the file to a ProDOS disk
>stick the disk in your Apple II

Another solution is to use the program ConvertForks that I just posted
to comp.binaries.apple2. It works on the Apple II end of the transfer
and doesn't delete the resource fork, but makes the data and resource
forks individually readable under ProDOS 8. And, it is a reversible
process!
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Bob Jensen
bob_jensen@jhuapl.edu