Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!bionet!arisia!roo!gerson From: gerson@parc.xerox.com (Dan Gerson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: moving files from Mac to Unix partitions Message-ID: Date: 11 Sep 90 19:41:34 GMT Sender: news@parc.xerox.com Distribution: comp Organization: Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 17 I assume that this has been mentioned before, but I had some problems moving tar files which I had on a mac partition to unix. The problem appears to be that the files were TEXT/????, and apparently the A/UX finder translates files it is copying from the mac to unix if it believes them to be text, presumably doing newline translations. I got around this by using disktop or something to change the file type to ????/????, dragging them to unix, and then running fcnvt to get rid of the resource fork created when I changed the file type. This isn't really a complaint; it is reasonable for the finder to translate text files. The only real problem was that NCSA telnet writes out a file as TEXT even though the transfer was done in binary mode. However, I was wondering if this behavior of the Finder was documented. I couldn't find it in the docs I got with the A/UX Accessory Kit, and "finder" doesn't seem to have a man page. If this isn't documented, it should be. Dan Gerson Xerox Palo Alto Research Center