dad@mit-vax.UUCP (03/15/86)
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.
jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) (03/19/86)
In article <419@mit-vax.UUCP> dad@mit-vax.UUCP (David Duff) writes: >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. I wrote the program and have used it ever since. I know it works. Your problem is, I believe, simple use "umodem -sb". -- Jim Budler Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (408) 749-5806 Usenet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amdcad!jimb Compuserve: 72415,1200