Re: MAC File Transfer

[andrew.webber2@btinternet.com (Andrew Webber)]

dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote in message news:<1fdwdxg.xrviwg93gztxN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz>...
> Andrew Webber <andrew.webber4@virgin.net> wrote:
> 
> > I have transfered some files from my Mac to a 800K Prodos disk, but
> > when I subsequently run an application under GS/OS from that disk all
> > i get is a dialog Window saying that "An application can't be found
> > for this document"
> > 
> > I come from mainly a PC background, is this something to do with
> > resource and data forks being different between MACs and GS/OS?
> 
> The internal structure of Mac and IIgs resource forks are different, but
> that doesn't affect simple file copying - it would only be significant
> if you tried to open a Mac-specific file in a IIgs application or vice
> versa.
> 
> The error message you are getting probably means that the IIgs file type
> has not been set correctly (and possibly the auxiliary type), so the
> IIgs doesn't recognise the file in question as an application.
> 
> The Mac is pretty reliable at retaining ProDOS directory information (it
> maps the ProDOS file type and auxiliary type into the Mac file type, and
> sets the Mac creator code to 'pdos'), but this is only useful if the
> file was copied from a ProDOS disk in the first place.
> 
> How exactly did the files get to the Mac, and in what form were they
> transferred?
> 
> The most likely explanation is that the download process didn't set the
> Mac file type and creator correctly, so the files end up with the wrong
> details when transferred to the IIgs.

The files came from a 800K ProDos disk. It was actually a game by
Sierra (King's Quest 2).

I have seen this a couple of times on my Mac were I transfer some
files to my Mac but the GS does not recognise the files once they get
transferred again to another ProDos disk.

Andrew