Re: [WinMac] Re: Serving Mac files on a PC Web server
Thomas Roth(tomroth[at]wfubmc.edu)
>>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.
No one has mentioned MacBinary (*.bin) which usually results in a smaller
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