Re: Internet->Mac->Apple IIgs

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Joseph Turner (jturner@tartarus.uwa.edu.au) wrote:
: Adam Rumack (area51@earthlink.net) wrote:
: :    I'm experiencing some problems download files to my Mac Performa 575
: : from the internet, and then running them, from disk, on my Apple IIgs.  I
: : download the file(s) directly to an  800k Apple II formated disk,  then
: : insert it into my Apple IIgs's 3.5 disk drive.  Then I follow the
: : intructions to intall BinSCII.EXE, but I get "file type mismatch" errors
: : in Basic (which the BinSCII.EXE instructions say to use to intall it).  I
: : have tried couple of other programs, but they dont work either.  When I
: : use the CAT command it says that the file type is 0$ (or 00, can't
: : remember =} ).
: :    My guess is that my mac gives it a mac id (or whatever it's called),
: : which makes it not work on my Apple II.  If this is the case, how can I
: : change the file type? If that's not the problem, then what is and how can
: : I fix it?

:   My guess is that you not only have to change the filetype, but you will 
: also have to make sure that it hasn't got a resource fork it it, since 
: prodos 8 cannot read forked files. To fix it, well I think that there is a 
: program on the mac that my beable to unfork it...atleast that is what I 
: think my friend was trying to do when I encountered a similar program when 
: trying to get System6(the hard way). what I reckon you should do is 
: download it through your IIgs, then go thru there. You only need a simple 
: modem program to do that.(Hope you have a modem program) If not ,well can 
: probably find someone local who can give you some help...localk apple2 
: usersgroup.
:    Now if you have a modem program make sure that you download in text 
: mode... it means that you will not have to change the filetype...you of 
: course want filetype $04. 

That it is. PC exchange and the ProDOS extension write all files onto ProDOS
disks as forked type $00. BASIC has no "me don't know forked file thing"
error so it gives you FILE TYPE MISMATCH. The fix? I wrote some homemade
ProDOS 8 assembly that can write the data fork of an extended file into a
regular file. I attempted to write code to delete extended files but didn't
quite perfect it, the free blocks count was always off by one when it finished.
Haven't looked at it in a while, the job thing and the life thing took away
a bunch of my hacking time.
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Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
shack@southwind.net                               when internet wasn't cool