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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST->MAC in Spectre GCR
Summary: The problem is with the application
Message-ID: <1990Sep1.125420.15363@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 1 Sep 90 12:54:20 GMT
References: <2531@speedy.mcnc.org>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
Reply-To: bill%biomel@cs.dal.ca
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <2531@speedy.mcnc.org> melton@mcnc.org (Matthew Stickles Melton) writes:
>Has anyone out there succesfully transeferred TEXT only files from ST
>disks to MAC disks using Spectre GCR's Transverter Program?
>
>The file transfers and shows up but looks like a bunch of junk to any
>Mac Application.  Even when you tell the more intelligent ones like 
>MS-Word that this is a TEXT only file it still looks like gobbledy gook.

I have successfully transferred binhex files (from comp.sources.mac)
which I downloaded on the ST to Spectre and extracted the Mac binaries
with Stuffit 1.5.1, so the problem is not with the transfer, it is with
the applications you are using.


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William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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