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Article #635Re: Help with MAC files on PC
From: Paul Womar
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 00:00
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Sean Sharkey <sean@g0oanint.demon.co.uk> wrote: > The best thing to do would be to go to www.aladdinsys.com. > There you will find copies of Stuffit Expander for both > PCs and Macs. The PC version also decodes .zip and all > sorts of other PC file formats, well worth having. Then > simply decode the file on your PC and transfer the > binary file to your Mac using a floppy. Probably bad advice. Putting Mac files on PC format disks means losing the resource fork, some files some don't need them and someone won't work without them. If you go all the way an unstuff the files then you will proably lose vital data from those files by placing them on a PC disk. -- -> The email address in this message *IS* Valid <-
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From: {$PW$}@pwomar.demon.co.uk (Paul Womar)
Subject: Re: Help with MAC files on PC
Date: 1998/10/16
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