Re: Transferring files...

[email@luddite.ca (Simon Williams)]

Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:

> 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.  ;-)

ProTYPE is quite handy on the Mac side. It strips the resource fork (if
any) and corrects the filetype for Apple 2 usage. Think it's available
from ASIMOV.
-s

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