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From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Red Ryder questions.
Message-ID: <8445@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-Jan-86 04:35:56 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 19 04:35:56 1986
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In article <277@ism780c.UUCP> tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes:
>I tried going "cat foo.info foo.data foo.rsrc > file; kermit s file"
>but was never able to get it to fully work.  RR would recognize that
>a MacBinary file was being transfered, but there was a disagreement
>about the length of the file.

Each of the two forks are to be null padded to a 128 byte boundary.
So when you did "cat foo...." RR ate a chunk of the beginning of
the rsrc fork into the data fork, truncated the data fork to it's 
reported length, and came up short for the rsrc fork.
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