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From: macak@lakesys.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Versaterm 2.10
Summary: Fix: Download to a closed file under MF
Message-ID: <377@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jan 88 19:09:10 GMT
References: <1470@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak)
Organization: Lake Systems, Milwaukee, WI
Lines: 29
Posted: Sat Jan 16 14:09:10 1988

In article <1470@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> buzz@phoenix (Mahboud Zabetian) writes:
>
>I am using Versaterm 2.10.  I know there is a new version out, but haven't had
>the time to send in my disk.  
>
>My question is:  When I download, while running under multifinder, the finder 
>does not recgnize the file attributes of the downloaded file.  I get a generic
>document icon, and sometimes the file type and creator are incorrect too.
>
>Is this a problem with versaterm?  Is there a way to fix it?  Is there a way
>to get around it, after the download is done?
>
This sort of thing seems to be a common problem as I have seen reports of
similar behavior with Red Ryder 10.3 running under MultiFinder.

The difficulty occurs when you download a file to a folder that is open on the
Desktop.  MultiFinder apparently does not correctly attach the attributes to
a file that is created in this manner (via a download using a term program)
and hence you get the generic icon, etc.

The solution for Red Ryder (and I assume other term programs) is to make sure
that the folder that your new file will be downloaded to is closed when you
see it on the Desktop.  You should then find  the file in "normal shape" (and
function) when you go to use it.

I fear that I do not know how to recover files that have the problem that you
have noted.  Perhaps someone else...

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