rpcfod@uarthur.UUCP (Robert Patt-Corner) (10/19/90)
I've "stumbled" over what seems to be a hole in the otherwise incredibly robust LanWorks package. How does one retrieve a file from a LanWorks file server volume from home? Like Alisa, LanWorks file server volumes store Macintosh files in several "pieces" - a CAT file holds the FINDER information, and each folder is related to a "RESOURCES" (MSAF$RESOURCES?) folder holding resource forks. The file itself is only a data fork. To dial up ye VAX and xmodem or kermit the file down, it must first be reassembled. I can't see any tools to do this in LANWorks. AlisaShare had MacGet and MacPut, but I think they were specific to the Alisa naming conventions, which are slightly different. LANWorks includes mBin, which will make Macbinary of any mac file. You'd think that would be the answer -- not a very nice one, since mBin is a Mac program and you'd have to MacBinarize your target files *before* you went home. But (grin) for reasons unkown, a file MacBinarized with mBin *cannot* be copied to a VaxShare volume. A mystery. So, where are we. Are we expected to drag out binHex or something, prepare our files before we go home, and dial in? Might as well haul floppies around. Perhaps there is an answer. Ideas?