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Another dumb newbie question



I finally figured a decent way to shuffle files to my Apples:  I have a 
resurected Focus drive on my ROM 01 and have it netoworked to an ancient IIce 
Mac I got for 10 bucks at Goodwill.  The  Mac's drive was toast...but... I 
have a 300 meg SCSI CDC drive that came out of an old PDP11  (probably cost 10 
grand new  and is the size of a PC case and hand built)  Modem is on PC. soo 
what I do: D/l on PC.  turn off.  Plug in CDC on PC SCSI bus. Boot.  use a 
progy called TransMac to copy the files to the CDC. Turn off. Plug into Mac. 
Boot. Copy to Focus on GS via Appletalk.  In spite of the multi-system shuffle 
(did I mention the PC is on 98 but accesses the internet via an internal net 
off a Linux gateway?, it is a kluge but functional...

Here is my silly question:  I got many files that when I try to unshrink I get 
"missing header" or other such errors.  A good example are the Focus utilities 
from the Alltech site or also Marinetti from appe2.org.  I have repeatedly 
attempted doownloads (in case my copy was bad) and it has not worked.  Any 
ideas?

-Bart

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