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pedro <pedro@nowhere.com> wrote in
news:4kXUd.179999$K7.88555@news-server.bigpond.net.au: 

>>If running Windows to DL, right-click link to DL before moving
>>file to the Mac. 
>>
>>Cache 22 will do what you're asking, but the other ultilities are
>>also useful on that Mac and OS you're running.
> 
> 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).

As I said earlier: right-click to DL Mac files to a PC.

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. 

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... 

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. 

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. 

-- 
dee