Re: Need IIe, IIgs MIDI software

[Greg Buchner <null@invalid.com>]

In article <1127236572.565284.133660@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:

> jbooth replied:
> 
> >ZIP them and it seems to fix all problems.
> >
> >links to DSK images will open in internet explorer
> >as text files.
> >
> >with ZIP windows always asks if you want to
> >OPEN or SAVEAS.
> 
> I was under the impression that .zip files presented
> some issues for Mac users.
> 
> Has that been "fixed"?
> 
> It would be great if all platforms agreed on an archive
> format, though that would, of course, leave out older
> platforms (like the Apple II, for which .zip support is
> pretty bad).

With Mac OS X 10.3 and later, zip is part of the GUI.  You can 
right-click on a file and select Create archive of "filename" and a .zip 
file will result.  If you double-click on the file, it expands 
automatically.  StuffIt isn't involved at all in the process which seems 
to help quite a bit.

The Apple GUI zip stuff I think will handle all of the Mac OS extras, 
like creator/filetype and resource forks for the older stuff, but it's 
not as important with OS X.

I've rarely had a problem downloading files with Safari in Mac OS X, but 
then I tend to automatically press the option key to force a download.

Greg B.

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