Help transferring ASCII to Apple II via Mac

[tdixon@everest.acpl.lib.in.us (Tim Dixon)]

Hi all!  Three or four of you seem reasonably intelligent, so perhaps
you could help me out.

I recently acquired my brother's Apple //e, with two 5 1/4" floppy
drives and a fingerprint printer card.  I downloaded some binscii
files from grind (HyperC, if you care about that), and the latest
(last?) ProDOS 8 disk image from ftp.info.apple.com.  Since I have a
Mac on my desk (and at home) and access to some IIgs's in my library's
children's area, I copied all the stuff to my Mac (which is still
waiting for network access).  I de-binhexed the image and copied it to
an 800K disk with no trouble.  Then I copied the binscii files
(binscii.exec, and so on) to the ProDOS disk, grabbed a bunch of 5.25
disks and went downstairs.

The ProDOS disk booted fine, and I used it to format a couple of the
5.25's.  When I tried to copy the files, I got a message "Unable to
copy.  Must be ProDOS disk."

Curious, I copied the "Copy Me" file from the ProDOS disk and it
worked fine.  So I looked at the catalog and the file types of the
binscii files were listed as "Unknown."

I'm using Macintosh Easy Open and the ProDOS file system that are part
of System 7.5 (the 7.5 upgrade is stuck on my hard drive waiting for
properties to send me more disks to receive it).  I thought that MEO
might be using the creator/type information to set the file type on
the ProDOS disk, so for kicks I fired up ClarisWorks and saved a
document as an AppleWorks 2.0.  Its type (on the Mac) is p[box] and
its creator is pdos.  This leads me to believe even more strongly in
my theory that MEO is using the type/creator information to set the
ProDOS file type.

Am I on the right track?  If so (or if not.  in fact, especially if
not), how can I get these files across in a usable format?
 

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