I use a program called TransMac. It allows you to format/read/write Mac-formatted disks, including diskettes, hard drives, Zips (and other removable medium), and CD-ROMs (read-only). This is what you have to do:
1) Download the file using your favourite browser. Make sure the browser doesn't "decode" it if it's in BinHex or MacBinary format (.HQX or .BIN file extensions). If you use Netscape/Mozilla/FireFox, you do that by right-clicking the link and selecting "Save destination as..." in the pop-up menu instead of left-clicking it. As far as I know, Exploder doesn't try to automatically decode Mac-encoded files. 2) Copy it to a Mac-formatted (HFS) diskette using TransMac. You can format the disk either with your Mac (recommended!) or using TransMac itself. Leave TransMac options to de thefault values (auto-sense the file encoding and auto-assign of type/creator pairs) - that works most times. 3) Insert the disk in the Macintosh and try to open the files. If it doesn't work, chances are that TransMac's default settings didn't work for that file. Try different settings (select manually the file encoding type and enter, if neccessary, the type/creator pair). If nothing works, write back here ;-) . Just a word about "file encoding". As you may know, Macintosh files are almost allways composed of two parts called "forks" (the "data fork" and the "resource fork"). You can think of them as two files under a single name. Mos other computer systems don't support "forks", and even in those that support them (like Windows NT/2000/XP using the NTFS filesystem), applicattions ussually don't use them. So does the Internet. Because of that, in order to transfer files outside the Macintosh or to download them from the Internet, a way is needed to "pack" both forks into a single file. That is what "file encoding" is used for. This also explains why you shouldn't decode a file in the PC: as the PC doesn't support/use multiple forkes, when you decode a file on it, you only get the "data fork" and lose the "resource fork", which, in many cases, renders the file unusuable (specially if it's a driver/system extension/application). Greetings, Antonio Rodr�guez (Grijan) <ftp://grijan.cjb.net:21000/> Greg Grady ha escrito: > Hi > > First thans to every one who has been helping me > along. > > I need to down load some files to get software on one > of my macs. All I have to download it with is a PC. > Some of the software is for a NIC so I can just uses > the mac to down load files. -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
