Re: Mac fork stipper program MIA (needed for A2s)

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nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:
>Ok, except for a very few extremely lucky types, Macs *do* have a
>problem with adding a resource fork to a download, making it
>unreadable by ProDOS 8 programs. Several months ago, a program was
>found that could remove the resource fork from the mac side, which
>the following URL:
>
>ftp://mirrors.aol.com/mir02/INFOMAC/info-mac/disk/file-stripper-utilities.hqx
>
>   Someone reported via email to me just now that that program has
>disappeared. I checked the ftp site above, and two infomac mirrors
>(umich.edu and grind), and the file is most definitely not there, and
>nothing readily apparent as a renaming catches my eye.
>
>   Anyone want to help every Mac user who suffers thru the quirks of
>the Macs with a replacement util?


Nate, I've heard (but do not know for sure) that there was an
Applesoft BASIC program (with ML routines) that ran on an 8-bit A2
under ProDOS and stripped resource forks.  Maybe Rubywand can help
because it was supposedly in an issue of II Alive a few years ago.

-Scott G.