Re: Mac IIe Card

[who@where.what (Bart)]

In article <8OUf9.291330$aA.50946@sccrnsc02>, tolsen64@nospam.boycot.dns2go.com 
says...
>
>I have a mac with a IIe card in it.  I downloaded the software from Apple's
>web site for the IIe card...but I can't get it to work...
>
>The web site says to double click on the self-extracting file and it will
>install...but I can't get it to work...  Here's what I did.
>
>1. Download the file to my PC
>2. Copy to a PC format floppy disk
>3. Put the floppy disk in the Mac and copy it to the hard drive
>4. Mac still thought it was a PC file, so it refused to run it.
>5. Changed the file type from "DOS" to "APPL"
>6. Still can't get file to run...when double-click on it, get error -39.
>
>The file name is "IIECARD.SEA.BIN"  I'm assuming that somehow the BIN
>wrapper needs to come off...what program can strip that off???
>
I have had EXACTLY the same difficulty with PC downloads to a Mac.  When I 
first started my network adventure, the only connection I had to the outside 
world was a 14.4 modem on a PC.  Files downloaded from PC don't work and play 
well on a Mac desktop....
There are a number of solutions.  Matter of fact, the Network from Heck grew 
out of my quest for these solutions.  
First.  Use Stuffit to unwrap this puppy.  How? well, notice how the file comes 
down to Mac Land from PC Land with a PC Icon? The Mac refuses to play with any 
file that might still have Bill Gates' kooties so ya gotta fix that.  Get 
Stuffit.  

Here is a download page: http://www.stuffit.com/downloads.html 

 I would suggest looking around and finding a copy of Stuffit 5.5 for this.  It 
works well on System 7.5.5 and earlier, and, if you are playing with a IIe card 
you need 7.5.5 or earlier to make it go.  Once you have Stuffit merely 
drag/drop the PC icon of this file on to the Stuffit icon.   Stuffit takes care 
of the details.  

If you REALLY wanna go to town with this, there are some way cool network cross 
communication solutions. The top 3 of these (imho) are: PCMACLAN, DAVE and the 
now discontinued COPSTALK.  I prefer COPSTALK.  Here is a page that discussess 
many many many cross communication packages (except my favorite).
http://www.macwindows.com/Network.html

Getting ProDOS across the GREAT DIVIDE is still thoguh, the REAL challenge.

-Bart
Keeper of the Network from Heck