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Mike Dee wrote:

>pedro <pedro@nowhere.com> wrote in
>news:4kXUd.179999$K7.88555@news-server.bigpond.net.au: 
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>>>If running Windows to DL, right-click link to DL before moving
>>>file to the Mac. 
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>>>Cache 22 will do what you're asking, but the other ultilities are
>>>also useful on that Mac and OS you're running.
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>>Thanks for that. I've just started using this mac, and a problem I
>>have is that when I dl a file onto the PC (which is the only one
>>connected to the internet) and then transfer it to the Mac via
>>floppy/zip, the Mac sees it as a PC file, and doesn't know what to
>>do with it. How can I dl files onto the PC and get them to the Mac
>>as Mac files? (This is what happened with this one).
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>As I said earlier: right-click to DL Mac files to a PC.
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I had assumed that you specified that method for a reason, but 
right-clicking or just clicking on the link didn't work, so I FTP'd the 
file from their server.
 

>What this does, is forces your browser to ask where you want to save
>the file, and also preserves it as a raw file, if you don't Windows
>will try to be 'helpful' and insert DOS carriage returns into what
>it thinks is some kind of unknown text file, effectively wrecking
>it.
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>Then copy it onto some kind of medium, floppy, zip etc and take to
>Mac. The Mac will still see it as some kind of DOS file and may even
>truncate the file name. Don't worry about this, just drag it onto
>Stuffit Expander's icon and it will do the rest. Hopefully you have
>Stuffit Expander installed on that Mac... 
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Yes I do.
 

>The file filename you DL'd is "newertools.sea.hqx" The .hqx part
>means the  file has been 'bin-hexed' it's a Mac archive format for
>moving files across the net. The .sea part means that it also
>contains a 'self extracting archive' think of it as an executable
>zip file (though it is most likely Stuffit compressed). Stuffit
>Expander will decode the whole file in one go and you'll find that
>you then have "newertools.sea.hqx" + "newertools.sea" + a folder
>named "Gauges" which contain the actual utilities. 
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Following this later post of yours, and now knowing the necessity of the 
right clik method, I got the idea to disable the firewall. I then found 
that right cliking worked, and was able to retrieve the file, and expand 
it to the 'gauges' prog, which does exactly what I wanted, thanks. and 
the prog is small enough to put onto a floppy for testing any machine.

>If you find yourself moving lots of Mac files DL'd from the net via
>a PC, then you might want to take a look at freeware HFVExplorer for
>Win32 <http://gamma.nic.fi/~lpesonen/HFVExplorer/> This will format
>Mac floppies on a PC and also create CD sized Mac drive containers
>(disk images) which it can mount on your PC enabling you to drag and
>drop from PC to Mac container at your leasure. Once filled you can
>burn to CD then mount the container on the Mac via "Disk Copy 6.x"
>as a disk image. Has a small learning curve to get to grips with,
>but worth it if you DL a lot of Mac files via a PC. 
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