[WinMac] Re: Serving Mac files on a PC Web server
Alex Dearden(pata[at]tampabay.rr.com)
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 23:09:00 -0400
>Hello! I have a PC Web server and I want to publish a Mac SEA file.
>Unfortunately, when I download it to my Mac, it doesn't recognize that
>it's a Mac SEA file. The file is called FILES.SEA.
When you send Mac files to a PC, they lose their resource fork where the
file's type and creator are stored. The Mac, unlike the PC doesn't rely
on extension naming to associate files, it does it by creator and type
information that is built into each file. PCs don't support this so you
lose them when you download a mac file from a PC.
The best workaround for this is to save the file in BinHex form
(.hqx) which is mainly text. That way you can take it to any platform and
when you download it it'll be intact. After downloading you can just deop
it on top of stuffit expander and you will have your file complete.
Acutally you should be able to drop that file you donwloaded onto
expander and it should still work, the data is still there!!!
Alex Dearden
pata@doglover.com
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