Thanks for all the replies, they're all great ideas. I'm using TextWrangler for OS X... I tried vim, no difference.
Using cat to make a text file, the resulting file shows the same text as just opening the original files with a text editor does. Using cat to just spit everything into the terminal just results in a long line of question marks. And to clarify, I believe these files are either just resource data files or small programs written in 68000 assembly. On Saturday, March 8, 2014 7:52:07 AM UTC-5, Koralatov wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 02:24, Tom Frikker wrote: > > I have files to be transferred to a floppy disk for the Mac 128k on my > > computer. Two of the files are called Unix Executable Files by my > > MacBook Pro. Apparently, according to a text editor, they are empty. > > Which text editor did you use to open the files? TextEdit sometimes > does that, but I've had more success using vim, which tends to be less > clever and treat the file as a string of bytes. > > > Obviously, this is not the case, as they are both 397KB. Does anyone > > know how to open these files, or how to see the code in them? It's > > very important that I figure out how to open these files. > > As above --- try vim. > > Failing that, have you tried an inelegant brute-force approach and tried > to use cat to pipe the file contents into a new file? Something like: > > $ cat OLD_MAC_FILE > TEXTFILE.TXT > > Hope that helps. > > -- > Mike | <http://koralatov.com> > 15.4" `Penryn' MacBook Pro 2.66 | 20" iMac G4 > `Key Lime' iBook G3 466 | G4 Cube 500 > -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
