Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uupsi!sunic!liuida!isy!ingemar From: ingemar@isy.liu.se (Ingemar Ragnemalm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Need help with ftp-->pc-->mac Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 91 18:44:47 GMT References: <2.27B9B830@mmug.edgar.mn.org> Sender: news@isy.liu.se (Lord of the News) Organization: Dept of EE, University of Linkoping Lines: 41 Jim.Spencer@p510.f22.n282.z1.mmug.edgar.mn.org (Jim Spencer) writes: >Shermane Austin writes in a message to All >SA> Anyway, I downloaded .hqx and .sit files obtained by FTP to my >SA> IBM mainframe to my PC at home, then put them on my MAC(I used >SA> Kermit,binary). I was eventually able to successly convert the >SA> .hqx files to .sit using BinHex 4.0 or 5.0 and then was able >SA> to unstuff them. unstuff them, but had a problem with the .sit >SA> files(directly from FTP sites). (stuff deleted) >If you are transfering the files from your PC to the Mac ordinary >binary that is your problem. You need to convert them from the >so-called MacBinary format to normal Mac format (MacBinary is a >standard for converting the two fork Mac file with its resources >etc. plus its file type and creator identifiers to a single stream >file format.) The easiest way to do this normally is to turn MacBinary >on at the Mac end of the link. Unfortunately I don't know if Kermit on >the Mac provides for this. MacKermit *does* this just fine. Put the PC/Unix machine/whatever's Kermit in binary mode, and MacKermit in MacBinary mode. Some ancient, obsolete versions of MacKermit does not support MacBinary, i.e. versions 0.8 and 0.9 (and older, if they ever existed). I use version 0.98, which is a very good terminal emulator in most respects. (I am longing for a fix to copy/paste though. Anyone got compilable sources?) >If Kermit won't decode them for you and you don't have any other >communications package that you can use, then your other option is >to use the Apple File Exchange and the shareware MacBinary to Mac >file converter. Or better: get a newer MacKermit. -- Ingemar Ragnemalm Dept. of Electrical Engineering ...!uunet!mcvax!enea!rainier!ingemar .. University of Linkoping, Sweden ingemar@isy.liu.se