Re: Sun to Mac to //c and back

[dirk@gaga.maschinenbau.uni-dortmund.de (Dirk Froehling)]

In article <507pv7$s38@darla.visi.com>, nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:

>   Shoulda noticed this before; the problem (as email conversations
>seems to have turned out) comes down to 3 letters: M-A-C. Idiot box
>****ing insisits on adding resource forks to files, making them
>unreadable under ProDOS 8.
>
>   I am > < (fingers about 1/8" apart) close to actually recommending
>that people wishing to download stuff to Apple IIs AVOID Macintoshes
>completely. In the FAQ. This is because of their BONEHEADED and
>UNNECESSARY inisistence on adding resource forks.

I use a Mac to download Apple II files all the time, with no problems
at all. I can download .shk files with Netscape or Anarchie, there is
no resource fork added and the files are directly useable on my GS.

If I download binscii files, from cba2 or whereever, I just drag the
file(s) onto sciibin (which I ported to the mac, it is available on
some Apple II servers, I think) and I have an .shk archive, complete
with the correct file type, which I can copy to a ProDOS disk as long
as PC Exchange is turned on.

And there is even a _very good_ ShrinkIt clone for the Mac, called
Shrink II. It can create and extract ShrinkIt archives and encode
and decode BinSCII files. You can get it from Ego Systems. It is even
native on PowerMacs.

I can't imagine an easier way to transfer downloaded Apple II files
from another computer. Can a PC write ProDOS disks directly?

Maybe you should add this to the FAQ.

Yours,

Dirk

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