Re: Help transferring ASCII to Apple II via Mac

[dnapoli@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dick Napoli)]

Peter Hinchliffe (hinchlif@numbat.murdoch.edu.au) wrote:

: You need at least a utility to change filetypes under ProDOS 8, such
: Prosel, FAZ, etc. But this is not necessarily the solution. 

: I have yet to create a file of any sort on a ProDOS disk in a Mac under
: System 7.5 which can be recognized by ProDOS 8. This goes for everything
: all the way down to simple text files. I think that System 7 (or
: ClarisWorks, or something) simply cannot help but attach an empty resource
: to whatever file is created. ProDOS 8 cannot handle forked files, so
: that's that. I have even resorted to Mac utilities which purport to strip
: resources, all to no avail. The only way I can transfer a file created by
: a Mac on a ProDOS disk to my IIgs is to read the file under GS/OS using
: something like ShadowWrite or EGOed, and save it as an ASCII file from
: there. 

: Someone tried to tell me once that text files are created without
: resources, even in System 7.5. I have seen nothing which confirms this.

	Try using Zipit on the Mac to compress the file.  It gives you the
option to remove the MacBinary wrapper (click on the circle in the next
to last column in the archive before saving), in effect stripping out the
resource fork. Then use Angel or PMPUnzip on the GS to unpack the file(s).


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Dick Napoli (dnapoli@freenet.columbus.oh.us)