I've read about MacBinary and BinHex, two programs that supposedly can combine the resource forks so that they're saved when transferring from MFS to HFS. Are these programs available as disk images, or are they built into the OS?
On Saturday, March 8, 2014 3:33:58 PM UTC-5, Ken Daggett wrote: > > > On 8 Mar 2014, at 12:18:20 PM PST, Tom Frikker wrote: > > > The files came from a 400k floppy disk, transferred to an 800k disk, > > to a Mac Classic, to a 1.4MB disk, to an iMac G5, to a flash drive, > > to my MacBook... > > Quite a long list of transfers, I know. I wouldn't be surprised if > > something got messed up along the way... > ----------- > Somewhere in that chain, probably in passing through an OS X machine, > the file lost the resource fork. Thus the file is most likely not > going to be useful on an older Mac and, since it is not a text or > graphic file, will not be of much use on any newer Mac. > > > Ken > > -- -- ----- 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.
