Re: HyperCard d/l

[ag471@yfn.ysu.edu (Eric S. Ford)]

In a previous article, bongini@law3.law.ucla.edu (STEPHEN BONGINI) says:

>	I've also tried to download these & can't get them to work.  Both 
>GSCII+ & ShrinkitGS can't unpack the files.  I don't know what they used but 
>I've also heard there is a strange extra header.  

There is.  It's $1FF bytes long; even a normal MacBinary header is only $80
bytes long.

>	The funny (?) thing is that I emailed support@ftp.support.apple.com 
>and was told in reply that they were made with Shrinkit & Binscii -- which 
>is totally wrong. 

Actually, it's not "totally" wrong.  The file is a Shrinkit file with the
additional "Mac" header applied.

>My suggestion would be for everyone to email the support 
>address & let them know that even the .bxy files are screwed up & everyone 
>is having a lot of trouble with them.  With enough responses, they'll 
>hopefully chage it (& know I'm not the only one having trouble).

Giving them the benefit of the doubt, I suspect they unwittingly used a Mac
file transfer method (similar to some available within Proterm) that 
automatically added the Mac header and weren't even aware of it when it
happened.


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