Re: mac-unix translation


Subject: Re: mac-unix translation
From: Oliver Wrede (owrede@khm.uni-koeln.de)
Date: Sat Mar 30 1996 - 07:36:58 EST


At 17:18 29.03.96 -0700, zinc wrote:

>i regularily (nightly) move ~180 MB from my linux box to an optical
>drive connected to on of our macs with no problems. i have even moved
>the files back to my linux box this way and uncompressed and untarred
>them without any problems.
>
>i guess you might have a problem if you had not defined these file
>types. i believe the default is to treat undefined things as
>SimpleText docs which is not a good thing for unix binary files.

Wouldn't it be much wiser to default to 'binary' transmission and to enable
CR/LF-conversion for .txt files only then?

Mac Users normaly do not use any File-Extensions, but they may use FTP to
transmit Files and then want to open them via Netatalk.

Oliver

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