Re: [WinMac] Serving Mac files on a PC Web server

Darryl Lee(lee[at]darryl.com)
Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:11:33 -0700 (PDT)

> > In my experience, your best bet with serving Mac files on the Internet
> > (via WWW, FTP) is to BinHex them.
> >
> > Sucks, but with the dual-forked nature of Mac files, it just works
> > better.
>
> Is BinHex a format which can be self-extracting (like an SEA file)? And
> how do I create a BinHex file? And what extracts it? If i do decide to
> use BinHex I'll need to point users to a location where they can get an
> extractor.

The defacto standards for Mac compression and encoding are
DropStuff and Stuffit Expander: http://www.aladdinsys.com

But actually, Ian is probably right: try and get the filetype stuff
set up correctly on your server, and this might not be necessary.

-- 
Darryl Lee <lee@darryl.com> | "That Systems Guy" | <http://www.darryl.com>


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