| gabriel rosenkoetter on Fri, 23 Aug 2002 00:00:07 +0200 |
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On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 05:36:56PM -0400, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > At 1:36 PM -0400 8/22/02, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: > >Yeah, well, MacBinary is a propietary format, > BULLSHIT!!! Okay. Guess I was thinking of CompactPro then. It's been a while. > As the person who chaired the MacBinary III committee, and > maintains the standard (along with the other Mac OS-specific > standards), I can, without a doubt, tell you how much crap that > statement is... Congratulations. ;^> On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 05:33:43PM -0400, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > At 12:12 PM -0400 8/22/02, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: > ># Unfortunately MacBinary doesn't really have a magic number prior > ># to the MacBinary III format. The checksum is really the way to > ># do it, but the magic file format isn't up to the challenge. > Correct, which is why we solved that in MacBinary III... Um, well, that doesn't stop people from using your old format (or from still having files in it). > The checksum, the version number and a few other things are > the common way to determine MacBinary header presense. But the version number is absent in MacBinary I, so that's not a lot of help... And checksum-parsing is apparently beyond the scope of magic(5) syntax (seems silly, but whatever). > Trust me, this is NOT a MacBinary encoded file!! As I already said, I was none too sure of that, just that the old way to match as being such worked. > BinHex actually incorporates MacBinary-like encoding as part > of the process - so BinHexing a MacBinary file is silly... Um, not really, being as MacBinary still has a separate resource fork for me to break transfering across OSes that don't speak it and BinHex doesn't, being a plain text file. That was a lot of flaming and not much help, Walt. How would you recommend Jeff open that file some place *other* than Mac OS? -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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