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Re: Mac files downloaded to PC

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From: David Matthew Wood
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 00:00
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glocock@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> In article <359998E2.1BA8@proaxis.com>,
>   wkapaun@proaxis.com wrote:
> >
> > glocock@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> > >
> > > In article <01bda420$86a4d4e0$7cfb0ccb@jvk>,
> > >   "Greg Pennefather" <greg.pennefather@usa.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It's as simple as that.  The only thing to look out for is - make sure
> that
> > > > the file you downloaded is either Binhexed (.hqx) (more common) or
> > > > uuencoded (.uue) or some other kind of encoding.  Otherwise the resource
> > > > fork will be missing.
> > >
> > > > Justin <justchoi@spamcuhk.edu.hk> wrote in article
> > > > <6n9lj9$kqs@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.edu.hk>...
> > > > > I have been asked by someone on how to transfer a Mac file to a Mac
> after
> > > > > downloaded to a PC. Does anyone of you know how to do so? Just save and
> > > > copy it
> > > > > to a floppY?!
> > >
> > > I have been trying to do this for a couple of weeks now. PC Exchange comes
> up
> > > with an error box that says cannot find application, even when faced with a
> > > .bin or .hqx file. I am sore puzzled by this.
> > >
> > Stuffit Expander should take care of those files.
> >
>
> And if you haven't got Stuffit then what do you do?
>
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From: David Matthew Wood <dmwood@erols.com>
Subject: Re: Mac files downloaded to PC
Date: 1998/07/03
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