--- On Sat, 3/7/09, lrbarrios <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I've got everything downloaded on my PC.
Mac files have two parts, a data fork and a resource fork. The only thing that
knows what to do with the resource fork is a Mac.
When you download Mac files onto a PC, you lose the resource fork and the file
is 'broken' for use on a Mac.
There is a way around this though. If the file is archived into Stuffit .sit
files, the resource fork doesn't matter. The .sea files are self-extracting
archives with a 'built in' version of Stuffit Expander. The problem is that
program code which enables the .sea to self-extract is in the resource fork.
Mac files can also be encoded into text files. BinHex .hqx or MacBinary .bin.
BinHex uses only 7-bit ASCII characters*, which makes the encoded file quite a
bit larger. (Encoding 8-bit data using only 7-bit patterns.) MacBinary uses the
full 8-bit ASCII character set.
If you download a .sea file to a PC it must be .sea.bin or .sea.hqx. It could
be .sea.sit but there's really no point. ;)
DON'T unstuff or decode the files on your Windows box! Use your Mac transfer
program to format disks to Mac format then have the utility copy the files to
the disk and simultaneously decode them from .bin or .hqx
*BinHex goes back to the days when many of the major internet routers were only
7-bit and would set the first bit of every byte going through them to zero.
That made hash out of any binary data that wasn't pure ASCII text.
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