problem solved (Re: Sun to Mac to //c and back)

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

I jumped on info-mac to see if there was any app to strip the resource fork
off a file. In the disk directory, I found the very thang. It's the file

<ftp://mirrors.aol.com/mir02/INFOMAC/info-mac/disk/file-stripper-utilities.hqx>

It has a drag and drop app for stripping the resource fork and another to do
the same for the data fork. There's even one to strip the name resource,
maybe that would cause files copied to DOS disks to not be forked, who knows.
Here's the procedure for getting a Mac downloaded file to work in ProDOS 8:

download it
drag the file's icon onto the resource fork stripper app icon
copy the file to a ProDOS disk
stick the disk in your Apple II

I tested this with a simpletext file, I got Appleworks to open it pretty as 
you please.

Just goes to show how much more productive a little resourcefulness is rather
than mindless griping.
-- 
Randy Shackelford                                 US Air Force officer
shack@frii.com                                    and Apple aficionado