Re: Internet->Mac->Apple IIgs

[Charles Turley <gbmaidsf@wco.com>]

Re: all of the following (Ref:) - Hasn't anybody heard about Mac Binary 
GS from Tony 'Hexman' Morales?  Go get it now from this URL:

http://www.best.com:80/~hexman/macbin.html

It will solve all your Mac to GS Shrinkit archives and all other such 
archive problems.  That's precisely the reason it was made in the first 
place!

Cheers!

Charles T. 'Dr. Tom' Turley

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Joseph Turner (jturner@tartarus.uwa.edu.au) wrote:
: Adam Rumack (area51@earthlink.net) wrote:
: :    I'm experiencing some problems download files to my Mac Performa 
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: : from the internet, and then running them, from disk, on my Apple 
IIgs.  I
: : download the file(s) directly to an  800k Apple II formated disk,  
then
: : insert it into my Apple IIgs's 3.5 disk drive.  Then I follow the
: : intructions to intall BinSCII.EXE, but I get "file type mismatch" 
errors
: : in Basic (which the BinSCII.EXE instructions say to use to intall 
it).  I
: : have tried couple of other programs, but they dont work either.  
When I
: : use the CAT command it says that the file type is 0$ (or 00, can't
: : remember =} ).
: :    My guess is that my mac gives it a mac id (or whatever it's 
called),
: : which makes it not work on my Apple II.  If this is the case, how 
can I
: : change the file type? If that's not the problem, then what is and 
how can
: : I fix it?

:   My guess is that you not only have to change the filetype, but you 
will
: also have to make sure that it hasn't got a resource fork it it, since
: prodos 8 cannot read forked files. To fix it, well I think that there 
is a
: program on the mac that my beable to unfork it...atleast that is what 
I
: think my friend was trying to do when I encountered a similar program 
when
: trying to get System6(the hard way). what I reckon you should do is
: download it through your IIgs, then go thru there. You only need a 
simple
: modem program to do that.(Hope you have a modem program) If not ,well 
can
: probably find someone local who can give you some help...localk apple2
: usersgroup.
:    Now if you have a modem program make sure that you download in text
: mode... it means that you will not have to change the filetype...you 
of
: course want filetype $04.

That it is. PC exchange and the ProDOS extension write all files onto 
ProDOS
disks as forked type $00. BASIC has no "me don't know forked file thing"
error so it gives you FILE TYPE MISMATCH. The fix? I wrote some homemade
ProDOS 8 assembly that can write the data fork of an extended file into 
a
regular file. I attempted to write code to delete extended files but 
didn't
quite perfect it, the free blocks count was always off by one when it 
finished.
Haven't looked at it in a while, the job thing and the life thing took 
away
a bunch of my hacking time.
--
Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
shack@southwind.net