Re: How do you flatten a Mac file?

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From: Chris Wood
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 00:00

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In article <1das451.kq25i2uo27b4N@pm1-26.altamaha.net>, Bill Williams
<bwms@altamaha.net> writes
>Chris Wood <chris.wood@ccgadv.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> As a result you can't download a mac executable (or equivalent) on the
>> PC, then copy it using disk to the Mac, as it won't work (PC doesn't
>> have the resource fork bit).
>> 
>> Makes things increadibly annoying.
>
>Well, you =can=, assuming the Mac file has been saved in MacBinary
>format first. That puts both the Data and Resource Forks into a single
>file, with an identifying header, so the PC (or UNIX, or whatever)
>box(es) through which they pass won't strip off the Resource Fork. Same
>thing if they are encoded as .hqx or uuencode.
>

Yes but that's not an executable, and as I said you can't download an
executable on the PC and copy using a PC disk to the mac.
You can as a MacBinary or uuencode etc, as this has no resource fork,
but you do need software to un-code it (of which I Recommend Stuffit
Expander).

Regards
-- 
Chris Wood
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Date: 1998/06/18
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