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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.005257.9400@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 20 Jun 91 00:52:57 GMT
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In article <50849@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
> In article <1991Jun19.000825.23509@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >Thank god, we don't have to play games with the likes of BinHex to interoperate
> >with normal systems.

> Uh, and neither do Mac users.  I've transferred binaries straight from Unix
> machines to my Mac, and downloaded Mac binaries directly from several IBM
> BBS systems.  Note that the accepted file formats on all the major
> commercial online services is also binary. 

Oh, what happens to the resource fork?

> Yep and so do we.  If you've missed the posts, the format is PICT.  The
> file type information is used for the purposes of figuring out whether a
> program can accept the drag and dropped file.

If it's got the right format, why shouldn't it?

All this "file type" business, and "resource forks", is a throwback to the
old IBM and DEC operating systems.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'   <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
                   'U`    "Have you hugged your wolf today?"