Digest 950813b Mac Midi Archive - Success!
By Robbie Rhodes
I made of copy of digest 950813b and stripped the file to begin with the line
(This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0)
Then I launched Binhex v4.0 (dated Jan 1986, and it still runs fine under the latest system, Sys 7.5). The result was a new application file named JeffD.Mac.sea. So far so good.
The extension ".sea" denotes "self-extracting archive", which is actually a small program which executes itself, so I gave it the ol' double click. Oops! A big message said "Not enough Memory".
So I opened the "Get Info" window and increased the "Preferred Size" value from 295k up to 500k, just to give it more system memory to work in. That did the trick, I guess, and it "self-extracted" into the four files as planned. Success!
The PC version was processed in a similar manner:
I copied digest 950813c to a new file named MidiUU.txt and stripped it down to the line
begin 666 JEFFD.ZIP
and then transferred the file to an MS-DOS formatted floppy using Apple File Exchange.
I used "Sneaker Net" protocol to get it to the PC. (I carried the floppy across the room!)
Now, at the PC, I used the utility program UNPOST, dated 3/19/94, to convert from UUencoded ascii-text into the binary ZIP file. The command line was
> UNPOST -U MIDIUU.TXT
and the result was the new file JEFFD.ZIP, which immediately received my command
> PKUNZIP JEFFD.ZIP
and which un-zipped and produced the four files. Gosh. Jody was right - it was easy!
Jody, can you provide these shareware utilities for the members who need them?
-- Robbie Rhodes 10 PM 13 Aug 1995
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