#Mac to Amiga
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Help please,
I have been having a problem transferring file from the Mac to the Amiga. I
have a couple of questions that are all related.
First, I have a Mac at home with the standard 4 Meg ram. At my office we have
the Amiga 4000 that has the Video Toaster installed. What I want to do is
transfer graphics files from the Mac to the Amiga and back. I did fine a
program for the Mac that will convert IFF to TIFF and vice versa. When I
brought back home some IFFs that I created on the Toaster and converted them to
TIFFs, all I got on the Mac screen was black. I think it's because the Amiga
has 20 RAM and my Mac only has 4. I have tried to reduced the file size from
the Amiga, but it made no difference. Is this possible?
Second, at home I use Compuserve on my Mac that also has a super drive that can
read and write to DOS disks. I have tried to download several programs from the
Amiga forum onto a DOS disk and then I took them to work. I was able to put
them on the hard disk, but I can't seem to run them. I am not that familiar
with the Amiga operating system. So, I am not sure why I can't run them. I have
tried just clicking them, but all I get is a return code 10. The file
extensions are .LHA, .Z00 and .LZH. I believe that these are compressed file. I
called compuserve support and they said to Download LX.LHA, which is supposed
to be a self extracting decompressing program, but I was still unable to run
it. As I said before, I am very unfamiliar with the Amiga. I hope someone can
Help me.
Thanks Mark B.
Mark,
<< I have a Mac at home with the standard 4 Meg ram. At my office we have the
Amiga 4000 <<
There's a nice switch. I wish all offices were as progressive as yours seems to
be <G>
<<I have tried just clicking them, but all I get is a return code 10. The file
extensions are .LHA, .Z00 and .LZH.>>
Try downloading LHA138.RUN from AmigaUser library 14. It is self extracting. I
would also suggest downloading DML.LHA from library 9 and decompressing it with
LHA138.RUN. DML will allow you to decompress files via the Workbench instead of
the CLI, which you may be more comfortable with given your MAC orientation.
If you are going to do extensive file transfers between your MAC and the Amiga
I would suggest that you talk your office into purchasing a program called
CrossMAC from Consultron. There number is (313) 459-7271. It easily installs
into the Amiga OS and allows transparent access to MAC files. Of course you
could always upgrade your MAC to an Amiga 😉
Cheers, Marty
ProActive Images Inc.
"WE BECOME WHAT WE THINK ABOUT ALL DAY LONG" -RW Emerson
Mark –
> I called compuserve support and they said to Download LX.LHA, which is
> supposed to be a self extracting decompressing program, but I was still
> unable to run it.
The really good CompuServe support people don't know anything about the Amiga
but will refer you to a reliable source of information, like AmigaUser or
AmigaTech.
The usual, run-of-the-mill CompuServe support people don't know anything about
the Amiga but will go ahead and give you misinformation anyway.
Sorry about that. At least you figured out on your own to come here <g>!
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