lwv27@CAS.BITNET (04/11/90)
Well, a few people pointed me to Resource Spy (which apparently has not yet
appeared on Apple2-L). I found a copy of this, but am still in need of some
assistance.
What I want to do is take a standard Mac file of sounds, fonts, or icons,
obtained either via AFE, downloading, whatever, and run a program or two on
it to get it into a format which I can use.
The current problems I seem to be facing are:
o while NuPAK can unpack SIT files, it currently only does so if the
MacBinary (or America Online) prefix is present. Neither of these are there on
a file retrieve from the Sumex Mac file server as far as I can tell.
o while resource spy allows one to open a file and examine the resources,
and in a few cases save the results to a file, when I do get a Mac
file of a font for instance in a binary form, there are no resources
there - so R.S. has nothing to work on.
If anyone is doing this (sharing fonts, icons, sounds - maybe even graphics),
would you mind going into excruciating detail as to how this might work? I
have no problem working with someone in email and then collecting the results
and posting later after I get the whole thing working!blackman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Michael Blackman) (04/11/90)
In article <9004101722.AA26528@apple.com> lwv27@CAS.BITNET writes: > >What I want to do is take a standard Mac file of sounds, fonts, or icons, >obtained either via AFE, downloading, whatever, and run a program or two on >it to get it into a format which I can use. I am almost finished with a first ALPHA release of AppleMac, which is a file transfer utility that reads Macintosh 800K HFS disks and converts the files into ProDOS. It works. It works on all Apple //'s. The user interface only needs a little tweaking, and pretty soon everything will be ready. This program will work on ALL apple II's that ProDOS will run on. So, even if we get an HFS FST with System 6.0, non-GS owners will still need this program. The bare-bones program does this: Converts data and resource forks into separate files Convert onto any ProDOS volume Support for any ProDOS-readable Macintosh device online (that's usually HFS 800K disks, but possible a SCSI hard disk too!) This SHOULD work, but I can't test it. It works with 800K HFS. Sooner, probably later, there's this: Convert into MacBinary file Convert into AppleSingle/Double files Conversion of sound files simultaneously (translating $00 bytes to $80) ...and a little more that doesn't require all that much. I'm going to put this out before ALL debugging is finished, in the interest of distributing a working HFS convert program. As long as you don't do anything TOO strange, everything will work fine! 8-) >The current problems I seem to be facing are: > >o while NuPAK can unpack SIT files, it currently only does so if the >MacBinary (or America Online) prefix is present. Neither of these are there on >a file retrieve from the Sumex Mac file server as far as I can tell. I've also made a BASIC hack for my own purposes that tacks a MacBinary header onto a SIT file (since SIT's are all Data fork, and no Resource fork, it works just fine.) This will get by, until I put MacBinary support into MacApple, or until Shrinkit/GS comes out. Anyway, release date for this is sometime in the next week or two. Thanks for your ears. Scott (blackman@phoenix.princeton.edu) "...If I only had a brain."
chines@pro-europa.cts.com (Clifford Hines) (04/12/90)
In-Reply-To: message from blackman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU I will be *waiting* for a copy. I use both computers and I have been looking for a while to transfer files between my IIE and the macintosh. Cliff UUCP: crash!pro-europa!chines ARPA: crash!pro-europa!chines@nosc.mil INET: chines@pro-europa.cts.com