Re: not there yet (FAQ info)

[NOSPAM***bjbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major & Dennis J. Gorin)]

> > supposed to be--TTXT and PDOS.
> 
> Those should be 'TEXT' and 'pdos'.

Sorry, that's what I *meant* to say.

> 
> > >(2) think that everyone should have file/creator type changer
> > > programs, even though such things are not part of the MacOS by default or
> > 
> > The file/creator/-type/changer isn't what's the main problem.  Utilities
> > programs on the Apple // side can take care of this part.
> 
> Actually, it _is_ the main problem.
> 
> If, on a Macintosh, you copy a file onto a ProDOS disk, then the file
> will end up as an "extended" file (unreadable by ProDOS-8), _unless_ the
> following rules apply:
> 
> 1. The file's creator must be 'pdos'.
> 
> 2. The file type must be one that can be translated to a standard ProDOS
> file type, using the standard conversion rules.
> 
> (As far as I know, this means the file type must be 'TEXT' or one of the
> specially encoded formats which cannot generally be entered from the
> keyboard.  The current standard format encode the ProDOS file type and
> auxiliary type in three bytes, with an initial 'p'.)
> 
> 3. The file does not have a resource fork.

All this is now taken care of for me on the Mac end by the program Randy
mentioned in the previous message (ProTYPE).  This is the answer I was
looking for and sure beats the hell out of working with that impossible
"binscii" program in Applesoft.  I now have absolutely no problems
transferring files downloaded from the Mac and using them immediately on
the Apple //.  This information definitely needs to be included immediately
in the Apple2 FAQ, IMHO.

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