#Mac-AMIGA
>> If it's a Mac-format file on a PC-formatted disk, would I _want_ to
>> strip of the Mac header?
Well I was kind of over simplifying, but yes. Mac files have a resource fork
and a data fork. Other systems know nothing about them and the files just get
stored as one big lump-o-data. While stripping out this header, BinHex also
puts the file back into a form the Mac can understand. Being fairly new to Macs
myself, I don't know that much about the subject myself.
I do most of my downloading with OzCIS on my 386 box, and then either put the
files on a floppy and run them through BinHex on the Mac, or send them over via
a null modem cable and let the terminal program on the Mac end straighten them
out.
-Mitch