--- mailbox 1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I realize that in my last message concerning this > topic, i did not > furnish enough information so; so here goes : > -at this time my only Internet computer happens to > be a PC running XP
You need to edit the settings for file handling in Firefox to always download .hqx, .bin and .sit instead of trying to display them. I don't have Firefox, but in Netscape I set them to Application/Octet Stream or something like that. Otherwise the @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@ browser will display/download them as 7bit ASCII text. HQX files are 7bit ASCII text, so if you just let the browser display the entire file, then save it, then rename the file so it has only .hqx as an extention and a filename 32 characters or less (including the .hqx extention) then dragging and dropping onto Stuffit Expander should work. BIN (MacBinary) files are 8bit ASCII text, so anything that "converts" them to 7bit by stripping the last bit of each byte will corrupt them. SIT files aren't ruined by losing their resource forks. Later versions of Expander are smart enough to look for the .sit filename extention and will automatically create a resource fork with icon when opening the .sit file. SEA files should never be downloaded to anything but a Mac unless they're encoded to .bin or .hqx because most of the time losing their resource fork makes them un-extractable. If you find unencoded Mac files (other than .sit) on a server, it's a tossup whether or not you can get them downloaded OK to a Mac, even if the server is a Mac or some other OS with special support for Mac files installed. IMHO (and the HO's of many other people) the Apple Double file format was one of Apple's dumbest moves. It's caused problems with cross-platform interoperation from the beginning of the Macintosh. There is an Apple Single file format that combines the resource and data forks into the same file, but the only software I know of that uses it on a common scale is Quicktime. A Quicktime MOV file, playable on Windows, has its resource fork prepended to the front of the data fork. This is called "flattening" the movie. But you can play MOV files on Windows without flattening if you copy both forks to the same folder and put a .qtr extention on the resource fork and a .mov extention on the data fork. <http://members.ispwest.com/gregg1/media100/exporting.html> It would be nice if all these non-IE browsers were set to default to DOWNLOAD _all_ unrecognized filetypes instead of trying to DISPLAY them. When Internet Explorer encounters a filetype it doesn't know how to handle, it asks the user what to do instead of trying to display it in a window. It will be total Fandemonium, Summer 2005! Check website for further info. http://www.fandemonium.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:vintage.macs@mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
