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From: eddy@jafus.mi.org (Eddy J. Gurney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: A.F.E. Translator for MacBinary?
Summary: Does this exist?
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.045856.3271@jafus.mi.org>
Date: 19 Nov 90 04:58:56 GMT
Sender: eddy@jafus.mi.org (Eddy J. Gurney)
Organization: The Eccentricity Group - East Lansing Division
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Here's a question for the Net-Gurus:  (I hope it's not something obvious! =)

I transfer quite a bit of stuff via Anonymous FTP.  Since my Mac isn't
connected to the Internet, I do all my transfer at work - which are
unfortunately IBM PS/2's.  (But at least they're on the Internet! :)
It's not that big a deal, since I just bring the floppies home, and use
Apple File Exchange to transfer everything to the Mac.  However, there
is a lengthy process involved in transfering all this stuff:

(1) Run A.F.E.
(2) Run BinHex 5.0 on all the files just transferred, to convert them to
    their proper type on the Mac.  (I probably should mention most of the
    stuff I get comes from 'rascal', which has binary files, and not Bin-
    Hex'd files...)
(3) Run StuffIt and unstuff (or BinHex 4.0, if necessary) any files I just
    transferred.

What I'd LIKE to be able to do is have A.F.E. do the conversion from Mac-
Binary on the fly, so instead of the generic "document" icon I usually get,
instead have it be a StuffIt or Compactor file.

Is there any easy way to do this?  Is there a P.D. translator to do this?

Any leads/info/suggestions would be appreciated.  Reply via mail; I'll
summarize to c.s.m.comm.

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E.J.G.
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