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From: ralf@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Ralf Schlatterbeck)
Subject: Re: Getting CURSES for the Mac.
Message-ID: <1993May24.141210.15445@email.tuwien.ac.at>
Keywords: ftp download curses infocom graham nelson infotask compiler c
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Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 14:12:10 GMT
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evans-ron@cs.yale.edu (Ron Hale-Evans) writes:

>In article <1993May19.201957.21484@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdr11@phx.cam.ac.uk writes:
>>In article <1993May19.112319.3048@leland.Stanford.EDU>, bigmac@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mark Christopher Macsurak) writes:
>>In the directory if-archive/infocom/interpreters/itf on ftp.gmd.de there is a
>>file mac.InfoTaskForce.bin which is claimed to be 'Mac executable, ported by 
>>Ralf Schlatterbeck'.  Does this not work?

>No. Binary FTP loses the application's type and creator, information crucial
>for it to run. Setting them manually doesn't work either. What Ralf should
>have done is binhex (standard Mac file format like uuencode) the file.
>I wrote to him with this suggestion a week ago, but haven't received 
>a reply.
Sorry, I replied to you just when I had put the binhexed file in our ftp
directory. It ist in pub/apple/mac, filename is InfoTaskForce.sit.hqx
The archive contains the README File (it is a WORD document, but can be
opened with teach text).
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Ralf Schlatterbeck
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