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Article #68977Re: Transferring files PC to Mac
From: Mark Dissington
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 00:00
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Subject:
Transferring files PC to Mac
Date:
Mon, 15 Apr 96 14:02:54 GMT
From:
Anthony Jarvis <ajarvis@jarvis35.demon.co.uk>
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>Any-one know anything about transferring files between Mac and >PC?
>
>I've downloaded a few Mac games to my PC. They have the extension
>.hqx I've used Mac-ette to transfer them to a Mac formatted disk,
>but when I try to run them on a Mac, they don't work.
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>|-----------------------------------|
>| Anthony Jarvis |
>| Email ajarvis@jarvis35.demon.co.uk|
>|-----------------------------------|
hqx extensions need to be uncompressed on the mac before you try
to use them. I think that system 7.0 has a program called binhex
bundled with it, that will decompress the file(s).
Hope this helps.
--
| Mark Dissington (Diss). Swadlincote, Derbyshire, UK. |
| E-mail: diss-1@mail.burton-college.ac.uk |
| URL: http://www.burton-college.ac.uk/student/~mark/gresley/ |
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