On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Geoff Canyon wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, David Bovill wrote:
>
> > Thanks Kevin...
> >
> > so what do you think, is it technically possible for a PC or Unix system
> > to save this invisible Mac-specific information, so that it magically
> > appears on the Mac witho
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, David Bovill wrote:
> Thanks Kevin...
>
> so what do you think, is it technically possible for a PC or Unix system
> to save this invisible Mac-specific information, so that it magically
> appears on the Mac without having to do or use anything else? Still can't
> se
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, David Bovill wrote:
> Thanks Kevin...
>
> so what do you think, is it technically possible for a PC or Unix system
> to save this invisible Mac-specific information, so that it magically
> appears on the Mac without having to do or use anything else? Still can't
> se
this cross-platform
support feature in.
Scott?
> From: Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:49:45 +
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Dumb download question...
>
> On 14/3/00 12:02 pm, David Bovill <[EMA
On 14/3/00 12:02 pm, David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I guess what I am imagining is that the Mac specific file information
> (resource forks, fields in the file header) are effectively invisible on
> other platforms. But the file still works there, so saving this information
> on all pl
transfer the file to a Mac.
> From: "Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 18:30:14 +1100
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Dumb download question...
>
> David Bovill wrote:
>
>> At the r
David Bovill wrote:
> At the risk of suffering everlasting shame, here is another:
> on the Mac, when you set the file type and creator types with
> whatever utility, aren't you adding a resource to the resource
> fork of the file.
Sort of. You are actually changing two fields in the file he
At 3:04 PM -0800 3/13/2000, David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At the risk of suffering everlasting shame, here is another: on the Mac,
>when you set the file type and creator types with whatever utility, aren't
>you adding a resource to the resource fork of the file. Why is there no way
>of
re no way
of adding this same piece of binary information to the file when it is saved
on other platforms?
> From: Mark Talluto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 22:57:43 -0800
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Dumb download qu
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 17:10:14 -0800 (PST)
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Digest metacard.v003.n277
>
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:
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>> At 11:30 AM -0800 3/10/2000, Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> ar
At 5:10 PM -0800 3/11/2000, Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>[File Exchange]
>
>Not sure why this didn't ever come up the last few times
>we've had this discussion. Maybe people were transfering files some
>way other that with PC floppies? Does this work when transfering
>files with Soft
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:
> At 11:30 AM -0800 3/10/2000, Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >architecture of the file systems on those other OSs. What would be
> >nice would be if there was some optional way for MacOS to map file
> >extensions to file types/creator co
At 11:30 AM -0800 3/10/2000, Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>architecture of the file systems on those other OSs. What would be
>nice would be if there was some optional way for MacOS to map file
>extensions to file types/creator codes when it's reading a PC floppy
>or an ISO 9660 format
On 3/10/00 9:43 AM, Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What would be
>nice would be if there was some optional way for MacOS to map file
>extensions to file types/creator codes when it's reading a PC floppy
>or an ISO 9660 format CD.
Control Panels-File Exchange. Add a new entry, type mc, s
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> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 13:15:24 -0700 (MST)
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Dumb download question...
> >
> > On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, David Bovill wrote:
> >
> >> Got you. In my case ZipIt tries
So can't you get the Metacard engine to do this as a default? Surely this
does not require, system level stuff from the Mac?
> From: Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 13:15:24 -0700 (MST)
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, David Bovill wrote:
> Got you. In my case ZipIt tries to convert CR to LF, and I had to turn this
> option off...
>
> Does this mean that for disk based transfers, the file/creator types will be
> set correctly, whichever platform the movie is saved on?
No: There is no suppo
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> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 09:55:03 -0700 (MST)
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Dumb download question...
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> On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, David Bovill wrote:
>
>> Am I right in thinking that a MetaCard file saved as a Mac file, and the
>> right extension will
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, David Bovill wrote:
> Am I right in thinking that a MetaCard file saved as a Mac file, and the
> right extension will open without any problem on all platforms?
Yes, assuming you get it to those other platforms using a binary-mode
transfer.
> If so does it not make sense to
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> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 13:34:43 +0100
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Dumb download question...
>
> Kevin Miller wrote:
>>
>> On 8/3/00 5:31 pm, David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Tried again to download the m
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 al
Cheers, must be ZIpIT I guess...
> From: Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 18:51:54 +
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Dumb download question...
>
> On 8/3/00 5:31 pm, David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED
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.
Title: Dumb download question...
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
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