Re: Transferring files...

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Jeff Thomas wrote:

>Thanks for all the advice, everybody about the cable!
>
>I tried connecting the cable to the Macintosh, and it refuses to go. I
>even, conducted a test to see if the 'communication port' was working and
>passed with flying colours. It's a damn nuisance, because I was hoping to
>transfer some StuffIt files from my PC to Macintosh Plus. Due to the lack
>of support for 720Kb PC disks in "Apple File Exchange" (AFE) programme, I
>am forced to transfer files to 800Kb ProDOS disk, which end-up getting lost
>during the translation from ProDOS to Macintosh - vice versa is also, true.
>The AFE is only good for 'data files' like word processors, spreadsheets,
>data bases, text files, etc.
>
>Maybe, the file type on Apple II side is wrong, thus getting handled in
>correctly? Or do I save them as a text file and then rename it on the Mac?
>
>I wonder if I would encounter a similar problem with AFE on newer
>Macintoshes?
>Or do ShrinkIt and StuffIt files, also, get lost during the translation?

File types are _always_ a problem when there's a Mac involved.

Try to avoid any file type that the Mac might think it understands,
like TXT.  Try to make all systems that a file passes through think
that it is a binary file, so that it will not try to "help" by changing
end-of-line conventions.  ;-)

-michael

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