Re: My Asimov and Cabi archives, and a great lil' Utility too!!

[glue@apple2.com (Glue Sniffin' Ed)]

Well...not exactly sure...but....it has worked for me :-)
So.....being that I'm basically ignorant hehe....I just run it...and
most of the time it works.

On Thu, 08 Jul 1999 01:40:41 GMT, CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)
wrote:

>On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 18:28:40 GMT, glue@apple2.com (Glue Sniffin' Ed)
>wrote:
>
>>Also....found a great utility called 'uncook'.  It basically takes any
>>files that were mistakenly sent to you as 'text' files (improper MIME
>>type settings under Apache, etc), and fixes them so they are Binary
>>files.  This seems to be a big problem with files received via http
>>off some servers.
>
>How exactly does it do this?
>
>If I transfer a binary Apple II file from a unix system to a Windows
>machine, all line feeds ($0A) get converted to carriage return/line
>feed ($0D0A).  However, if I transfer a binary Apple II file from a
>Mac system to a Windows machine then all carriage returns ($0D) get
>converted to carriage return/line feed ($0D0A).  How does the program
>know whether to convert $0D0A sequences to $0A or $0D?
>
>+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>| Jeff Blakeney - Dean of the Apple II University in A2Pro on Delphi     |
>|                    Delphi Apple II Forums Web Pages                    |
>| A2: http://www.delphi.com/apple2   A2Pro: http://www.delphi.com/a2pro  |
>+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>   HyperCard IIgs course now in session in the A2Pro forum on Delphi
>        Learn to Program in GSoft BASIC course now in session