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From: hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe)
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Subject: Re: Need AppleSingle to Mac converter
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Date: 11 Dec 90 21:23:08 GMT
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In article <47267@apple.Apple.COM> antonio@Apple.COM (Antonio Ordonez) 
writes:
> In article <9491@ncar.ucar.edu> hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe) writes:
> >In article <1990Dec11.015303.20939@news.nd.edu> 
mahesh@caradhras.cc.nd.edu 
> >(Mahesh Subramanya) writes:
> >>         Does anyone out there in mac land have any suggestions as
> >> to how I would go about translating a AppleSingle file into a standard
> >> Macintosh file?
> >
> >Ditto for AppleDouble.
> 
> I will assume that both of you are talking about A/UX files so,
> there is a utility in A/UX called fcnvt (file convert).

In my case, no.

The Cayman Gatorbox, via its GatorShare software, makes an NFS volume 
appear to a Mac to be an AppleShare volume. On the NFS side, Mac files are 
stored in either AppleSingle or AppleDouble format. It would be convenient 
(after FTPing from sumex, or apple.com, say) to convert from BinHex to 
AppleDouble format using a tool that ran on the NFS side. This machine 
might be a Sun, and IBM RISC, a DEC MIPS, etc.

Unfortunately, then, fcnvt won't do the job (although it has just the 
right functionality); unless you could make the source code available!

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