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From: dad@mit-vax.UUCP
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Subject: Unix to Mac transfer
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Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 17:12:58 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 14 17:12:58 1986
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At some point in the past month or so, some part of my normal unix to
mac file transfer chain broke.  I used to use xbin and macput on unix
and macterminal on the mac.  Now, this doesn't work.  When I try to
download a file, I get a macterminal message something like "transfer
aborted ... bad file block."

Recently, someone posted a program to create binary format files from
the output of xbin.  Using this, (theoretically) one should be able to
use one of the generic xmodem-type file transfer programs to send
programs in "mac-binary" mode.  This method is supported by the Red
Rider program, Freeterm, and the new Macterminal.  I tried this on two
or three things and it seemed to work at first.  The files appeared in
the finder with non-zero size and their appropriate icons, but they
caused system bombs when I tried to use them.

Could someone please tell me what the proper way to do macbinary
transfer is?  Here's what I tried:  I used xbin to create the .info,
.data, .rsrc files;  I ran macbin to create the .bin file;  I ran
"umodem -st" to send the file to my mac running RR.  RR acknowledged the
macbinary format and created the file.  I tried to use the files I
downloaded in this way and got bombs.

Thanks in advance.