Re: Another dumb newbie question

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Bart writes ...

>>
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...
<<

     Well, you do get to use lots of interesting equipment. Wouldn't it be a
little easier to transfer stuff directly from the PC to your IIgs using a
standard NULL modem connection?


>>
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?
<<
 ....

     Both Alltech and Apple.org are http sites. Downloads of files with Apple
suffixes are, at least with some browsers, likely to include Text mode
corruption.

     The sites could fix the problem by making the suffix of names of download
files a standard PC bin type (like ".bin") or by putting the files in a .zip
archive (with a name ending in ".zip"). Or, they could arrange for the files to
be maintained on an ftp site such as Ground or ACN Florida.

     You can probably get good downloads by scrapping the current downloads and
doing fresh downloads. This time, use Uncook (on the PC) on each of the files
you download from these http sites. To get Uncook and for information about
using it click on "Download Help" (lower right) in the January 2000 issue of GS
WorldView at ...

http://www.grin.net/~cturley/gsezine/GS.WorldView/v2000/Jan/ .



Rubywand