Kevin Miller wrote:
>
> On 8/3/00 5:31 pm, David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Tried again to download the mchttpd stacks to my mac, cos I was thinking of
> > replacing Apache. It's a nice little zip file, which transfers fine. I unstuff
> > the thing and I get the folders and files all nicely arranged on my desktop.
> > OK, so the stacks look like text files and I need to convert the file and
> > creator types for the Mac, which i do with the nice "mcstack_importer.mc"
> > utility.
> >
> > But I can't open it from within Metacard, and if I try to go to the stack I
> > get:
> >
> > "stack was corrupted by a non-binary file transfer"
> >
> > Anyone know what's up? I generally don't have a problem unzipping files...
>
> At some point during the transfer, whether by your zip package or
> subsequently after moving the files around, something has translated the
> files from binary to text. There are actually several packages that will do
> that by accident (the "auto detect" options in some ftp packages will always
> upload MC stacks as text for example). You'll have to try to find out where
> that happened and prevent it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kevin
>
> Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.xworlds.com/>
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I had the same problem by pressing the "alt" key or using various FTP
clients... After that, i found the solution in using
Netscape+Suffit-Expander do all the job, automatically and without any
keydown ;-)
Hope this help,
Regards, Pierre Sahores
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