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amiga/Mac transfers
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Adam, I've also experienced difficulties passing text files to a Mac+. I
was using "Aterm" (PD term pgm) on my Amiga and Red Ryder 5.00 on the
Mac+. I finally opted to use straight ascii transfers and had no
problems. The problem I encountered was with timeou ts. It didn't seem to
matter which machine was sending or which machine was receiving. Let me
know if you find a solution. Adios Bill C-B
Part of the problem might be that mac files are forked. Data resides in the
data fork and resources (windows, menus, dialogs, fonts, etc.) are in the
resource fork. The data fork on a Mac is what an ordinary file looks like
on other machines. If you do a "straight XMODEM" transfer in MacTerminal,
or a TEXT file transfer in RedRyder all you will get is the DATA FORK.
Since fonts are resources, they reside in the resource fork, and since a
font file contains only fonts THE DATA FORK IS EMPTY so there is nothing to
transfer. You can transfer the whole file using the "MacBinary" protocal.
Select it from the file transfer options in MacTerminal. Use the MacBinary
option from the XMODEM & KERMIT PREFERENCES in RedRyder. You might then
have to translate from MacBinary depending on what ypu are doing. You can
find infoe on macbinary on Maug. One thing tho' MACWRITE DOES NOT PRODUCE
AN ASCII FILE, IT IS COMPRESSED But you can translate to text file & then
transfer it. Good luck!
Part of the problem might be that mac files are forked. Data resides in the
data fork and resources (windows, menus, dialogs, fonts, etc.) are in the
resource fork. The data fork on a Mac is what an ordinary file looks like
on other machines. If you do a "straight XMODEM" transfer in MacTerminal,
or a TEXT file transfer in RedRyder all you will get is the DATA FORK.
Since fonts are resources, they reside in the resource fork, and since a
font file contains only fonts THE DATA FORK IS EMPTY so there is nothing to
transfer. You can transfer the whole file using the "MacBinary" protocal.
Select it from the file transfer options in MacTerminal. Use the MacBinary
option from the XMODEM & KERMIT PREFERENCES in RedRyder. You might then
have to translate from MacBinary depending on what ypu are doing. You can
find infoe on macbinary on Maug. One thing tho' MACWRITE DOES NOT PRODUCE
AN ASCII FILE, IT IS COMPRESSED But you can translate to text file & then
transfer it. Good luck!