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


Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]Adobe.COM)
Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:08:29 -0400


At 2:52 PM -0400 9/10/98, Pierce, Ian wrote:
>That's most likely because the type and creator information is lost in
>transit.
>
        It's worse than that - the whole resource fork of the file (which
contains the executable part of the SEA) is lost!

>If you're
>running NT with Services for Mac, you can associate the .sit extension with
>the appropriate type and creator codes. (sorry don't have them off the top
>of my head)
>
        Type = 'SITD'
        Creator = 'SIT!'

Leonard
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