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From: pem@cadnetix.COM (Paul Meyer)
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Subject: Re: Macintosh-->ProDOS
Keywords: I CAN'T WAIT FOR SYSTEM 7.0!!!
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Date: 22 Feb 90 20:17:16 GMT
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In article <1011@spock.UUCP> mustang@spock.UUCP (Neil McNeight) writes:
>
>	I KNOW!!  There is an unwritten law stating that cross-posting
>between Mac and Apple newsgroups is forbidden, but this question has to
>do with both.
	I don't know it; then again, I don't tend to read the Apple group.
On the other hand, if you're not looking for a hardware solution, why did
you crosspost to c.s.m.h?
>
>	I am having the darndest time trying to transfer files from the
>Macs in the computer lab to my //gs in my room.  Before you go through
>the trouble of thinking of some elaborate scheme I should use or
>something I forgot, let me list what I know:

	I used to do this a little; I have both a Mac and a //gs at home,
and occcasionally pull things off the net for the //gs, but it's been a long
time since I did this (the last time was before the advent of BinScii, when
everything was in Executioner format).
	My problems usually started on the UNIX->Mac end of things; I had
lousy luck with text downloads, but got the PD source for xmodem and that
took care of it.  These days we have Macs at work and use TOPS...
	I'd guess that your problem is in text-file translation.  I've never
had the AFE text translator work for me; use the default (pure binary)
translation.  Make sure that the line-ends are correct for the Apple--the
Mac uses just a cr (ascii 13) for line-ends.  I don't know offhand what
ProDOS uses (you can tell which of my machines I do most stuff on).
I'd try the various permutations--make three copies of the file and
change all the line-ends to cr in one, to crlf in another, and to lf in the
last.  (I'd do all this on the Mac, using McSink or equivalent; I imagine
MS Word could do it with enough effort.)
	Lastly, perhaps the ProDOS file type bytes are coming out wrong?
Does Binscii expect a specific value that AFE doesn't put in?

	Do any of the folks with the MPW //gs tools have a tool to make this
job easier?

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