Re: Mac to Apple // downloaders: ProTYPE works!!!!

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <dirk-2703971532570001@muffin.maschinenbau.uni-dortmund.de>,
Dirk Froehling <dirk@gaga.maschinenbau.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:

[big snip]

>>   As I noted in the FAQ, there *was* another program to do exactly
>>the same thing, but it disappeared from the Mac ftp sites. I'm not
>>responsible for maintaining Mac programs, keeping them around or
>>anything else, so if the magic Mac downloading program of the month
>>disappears, we'll go through this again. And again.
>
>You mean "Sciibin for the Mac"? It was the predecessor of ProTYPE and
>never made it to a Mac site, afaik. But it was available on caltech
>and ground.

I think he means the file "fork-name-strippers.hqx" which I located on
info-mac last fall, last go-round of this. It had a drag 'n drop app
which could strip resource forks, another to strip data forks, and
a third that did something else which I never tried. It was just the
first thing I grabbed that could do the job. Since I was away from
home and the closest thing to an Apple II I had at the time was IIe 
running on my Powerbook, I got it running Shrinkit, binscii, etc, 
starting totally from scratch with nothing but a 5.25 disk image with 
ProDOS 8 and BASIC on it. It worked but not as elegantly as using ProTYPE.

>>   "Not rocket science to download properly thru a Mac", my ***. It
>>isn't done right, and neither Apple nor Macheads will tell you
>>otherwise.
>
>When you tell me about a program that strips binscii wrappers and
>types ProDOS files on a DOS/Windows computer as easy as ProTYPE, I'll
>be impressed. I simply don't need BINSCII on my Apple IIGS. I take 
>the ShrinkIt archives home, they need the least space on disk.

Rock on
-- 
Randy Shackelford                                 
shack@frii.com