Incomplete send... * I'm admittedly not very familiar with the current relationship between OS X and resource forks and all that. That could have happened in transfer depending where the files came from and how they were transferred. (Unless you've already eliminated that possibility - I only mention it because I've borked more than one mac program by not binhexing before storing on and subsequently trying to move things around a linux box.)
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 3:07 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Since OS X recognizes them as unix files, is it possible they have > corrupt resource forks or have lost the resource fork? I'm admittedly > not very familiar with That still doesn't explain why they show > completely blank, though. > > Here are a couple more ideas to try for viewing that may work better > for binary files: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1765311/viewing-file-in-binary-in-terminal > https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/od.1.html > > Stickman > > On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Tom Frikker <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. -- -- ----- 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.
