zee@fwi.uva.nl (Daniel M. van der Zee (I89)) (03/01/91)
HELP Can someone please explain me (step-by-step) how i can binhex and unsit files on a unix machine and later copy them to a mac-directory. I know how to binhex and unsit my files on a mac but that's terribly slow on my mac+. So, I downloaded some files concerning binhexing and uncompressing on a unix machine but i just keep ketting wierd error messages like: "not a stuffit file" after i downloaded a file like foo.sit (yes i did it in binary mode) and tried "unsit". I couldn't find any documentation about unsit and mcvert so please... I would also like to know how i convert a macbinary file to a macintosh file (preferably also on a unix machine) Thank You, Daniel van der Zee zee@fwi.uva.nl
jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George Jefferson ) (03/02/91)
the header of unsit-15.shar on sumex-aim.stanford.edu (info-mac/unix ) contains a reasonable explination :after i downloaded a file like foo.sit (yes i did it in binary mode) and tried :"unsit". I couldn't find any documentation about unsit and mcvert so please... :I would also like to know how i convert a macbinary file to a macintosh file :(preferably also on a unix machine) I think here is your conceptual problem. A 'macintosh' file can not exist on a unix machine, hence the formats ".bin" or macbinary, ".hqx" or binhex, and the (IMO obsolete) macbput/macbget format which is also confusingly refered to as macbinary. ( a 'mbput' 'file' will be three unix files with extensions like .rsrc ) unsit will read either 'macbinary' format, but only outputs mbput files, so there are a lot of steps... say you start with foo.sit.hqx mcvert foo.sit.hqx --> foo.sit.bin unsit foo.sit.bin --> three files for each file in the stuffit archive if you have a terminal which supports mbput you can download these directly _or_ get macbin (macbinary.shar@sumex) to put the .data, .rsrc,.. files back together to create " .bin" files " .bin" files must be transferred in _macbinary_ mode ( not binary ) (which is more widely supported, and works with kermit, zmodem, etc) In either case the conversion from 'macbinary' to mac format is handled by the terminal software. (you should get real double clickable files with icons, etc) Personally I use mcvert, and let stuffit do the rest on my mac (SE) It is less hassle, and the 'stuffed' files are smaller so you make up time on the download. -- -george george@mech.seas.upenn.edu
george@swbatl.sbc.com (George Nincehelser 5-6544) (03/03/91)
In article <38548@netnews.upenn.edu> jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George Jefferson ) writes: >Personally I use mcvert, and let stuffit do the rest on my mac (SE) >It is less hassle, and the 'stuffed' files are smaller so >you make up time on the download. I have to agree with this method. It's the one I use and I've never had a problem. It also makes sense since not all files are in the .sit format anyway. -- / George David Nincehelser \ george@swbatl.sbc.com \ / / Southwestern Bell Telephone \ Phone: (314) 235-6544 \ / / / Advanced Technology Laboratory \ Fax: (314) 235-5797 \ / / / /\ 1010 Pine, St. Louis, MO 63101 \ de asini umbra disceptare \
schoett@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Oliver Schoett) (03/05/91)
In article <38548@netnews.upenn.edu> jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George Jefferson ) writes: > " .bin" files must be transferred in _macbinary_ mode ( not binary ) > (which is more widely supported, and works with kermit, zmodem, etc) Which programs support macbinary mode? I used MacTerminal with the xmodem protocol, and it didn't work: the file was transferred, but was just a `dead' document afterwards. Does MacTerminal support macbinary download? What else does? There's also a chance I might get NCSA telnet to work; does that support macbinary download? Cheers, Oliver Schoett Institut f. Informatik, Technische Univ. M"unchen Postfach 20 24 20, 8000 M"unchen 2, Germany schoett@informatik.tu-muenchen.de phone +49 89 2105-2390 fax -8207