gerson@parc.xerox.com (Dan Gerson) (09/12/90)
I assume that this has been mentioned before, but I had some problems moving tar files which I had on a mac partition to unix. The problem appears to be that the files were TEXT/????, and apparently the A/UX finder translates files it is copying from the mac to unix if it believes them to be text, presumably doing newline translations. I got around this by using disktop or something to change the file type to ????/????, dragging them to unix, and then running fcnvt to get rid of the resource fork created when I changed the file type. This isn't really a complaint; it is reasonable for the finder to translate text files. The only real problem was that NCSA telnet writes out a file as TEXT even though the transfer was done in binary mode. However, I was wondering if this behavior of the Finder was documented. I couldn't find it in the docs I got with the A/UX Accessory Kit, and "finder" doesn't seem to have a man page. If this isn't documented, it should be. Dan Gerson Xerox Palo Alto Research Center