Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watcgl!watmum!rmariani
From: rmariani@watmum.waterloo.edu (Rico Mariani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: macfont decoder
Keywords: mac fonts
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Date: 17 Apr 88 21:08:07 GMT
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In article <343@mergvax.UUCP> ellis@mergvax.UUCP (Craig Ellis) writes:
>
>    Have have received the mac font decoder which contains the applications
> called unpack and convert.  I following the instructions of creating a
> suitcase file full of fonts and used kermit (binary mode and resource fork)
> to transmit to a VAX. From the VAX I downloaded this file to my amiga.
>    With this file I tried the unpack with and without the -x option (skip
> 128 header info) and received the guru every time.  Has anyone tried using
> mac font decoder with any success?  Any information would be welcomed.

I've used the program with much success (seeing as I wrote the convert
portion of it you might expect that it would work for me :-)).  I can't
really say for sure what your problem is but I can tell you that neither
unpack nor convert are very robust, i.e. they tend to crash if the
file is not what they expect... You must make sure that the file you
transfered is really an image of the Mac version... check the lengths
and see if the add up (don't forget the 128 byte extra header).  Make
sure that the kermits you used are in image (set file type binary) mode at 
both ends.  I think you'll find that if you transfer carefully then
all will be well.

	-Rico