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From: nagel@blanche.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
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Subject: Re: UNIX-side support for ZMODEM
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Date: 7 Feb 89 21:38:11 GMT
References: <DAVIDL.89Feb6093548@intelob.biin.com> <20162@coherent.com>
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In-reply-to: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)

In article <20162@coherent.com>, dplatt@coherent (Dave Platt) writes:

|So,  you should be able to do the follows:
|
|	cat foo.info foo.data foo.rsrc >/tmp/foo
|	sz /tmp/foo
|
|No guarantees... but, as I read the MacBinary standard, this should work
|just fine.

This shouldn't work in general.  I checked the .info file and it is
equivalent to the MacBinary I header.  However, the data fork and
resource fork each need to be padded to a multiple of 128 bytes with
ASCII NUL characters.  The above may work in robust MacBinary
implementations, but the standard says the padding must be there.

Mark Nagel @ UC Irvine, Dept of Info and Comp Sci
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