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yahtek Starting Member 4 Posts	Posted - 13 Jan 2003 : 22:02:53 Ok I dl Hotline and used it. Now I have all of these .img files. I have tried Stuffit deluxe, Disk Copy, and Shrinkwrap to open them and nothing works on any of them. Do any of you have any ideas?
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 13 Jan 2003 : 22:56:24 hmm... Disk Copy (version 6.something) works for me :-\ version 4 ionly to make copies of the .IMG files, sadly, not to mount them Official 68k videographer
oldmacman Full Member USA 713 Posts	Posted - 14 Jan 2003 : 06:49:47 I would expect either ShrinkWrap or Disk Copy to open them. Did you transfer them over to the Mac from a PC? That sometimes corrupts them. Official 68kMLA Music and NeXT Expert Macs Liberated: SE (2), LC, IIsi, PB 145b, Quadra 700 (2), LC 575, 6100 (2), PB 5300, PowerMac 5400/200, Performa 6400/180 PCs liberated from Windoze: 3
pracht New Member Estonia 66 Posts	Posted - 14 Jan 2003 : 10:03:38 If you download .img files with PC, the file(s) gets corrupted because .img file contain a resource fork and PC version of Hotline can't save resource forks !
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 14 Jan 2003 : 22:34:07 yeah... that seems like a reasonable explanation! Official 68k videographer
Pansy General Starting Member USA 14 Posts	Posted - 18 Jan 2003 : 16:38:10 I download all .img files onto a emulated MAc HD using Basilisk. This I achieve by using the 68k version of Hotline, 1.5.5. That's all. No problems, the .img files never see the PC end, and i burn the entire Mac Hd's to save them , of course. Signatures suck
Pansy General Starting Member USA 14 Posts	Posted - 18 Jan 2003 : 16:38:13 Just make sure, if you do want to transfer the .img files through the PC, that once you download them on Basilisk, dropstuff them. This should protect them against corruption. I say should because I have heard otherwise . Signatures suck Edited by - pansy General on 18 Jan 2003 16:40:20
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 18 Jan 2003 : 20:01:10 quote: Just make sure, if you do want to transfer the .img files through the PC, that once you download them on Basilisk, dropstuff them. This should protect them against corruption. I say should because I have heard otherwise . Signatures don't suck Edited by - pansy General on 18 Jan 2003 16:40:20 Stuffing will not protect the resource fork!!!! You need to binhex or hqx them. -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3 Edited by - catsdorule on 18 Jan 2003 20:01:59
oldmacman Full Member USA 713 Posts	Posted - 18 Jan 2003 : 20:56:02 Yes, stuffing will protect the resource fork. I've downloaded .sit files many times on a PC without them becoming corrupt. You don't need to encode the file in any other way for it to work. Official 68kMLA Music and NeXT Expert Macs Liberated: SE (2), LC, IIsi, PB 145b, Quadra 700 (2), LC 575, 6100 (2), PB 5300, PowerMac 5400/200, Performa 6400/180 PCs liberated from Windoze: 3
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 19 Jan 2003 : 00:27:29 doing an archive of any thing will save it's resource fork... the catch? you have to open it back up on a mac... the rexource fork of the stuffit file may not be there... but you just drag that to unstuffit and Voila! Official 68k videographer
Citon X600 Junior Member Canada 206 Posts	Posted - 28 Jan 2003 : 15:05:17 Don't forget that if the Hotline Server itself is running on a PC and users uploaded a disk image without stuffing it, it has already been corrupted way before you got it. As a side note as well, although simply stuffing a file will work, there are chances that corruption can occur. Some machines running UNIX will not interpret the file correctly. Hence, Apple provides the downloads on thier site in iether HQX or BIN which are essentially pure text. I don't want to start a debate over this, I have downloaded lots of files over the net in sit format, but if you want to have the extra assurance that you data has a 99% chance of making it through alive, I would take the time to Bin/HQX it. Not to mention certian versions of Stuffit are rather picky about what files they open, even refusing to expand true archives. (The trick with that is to move the files to a folder and get Stuffit to "Watch" this folder for archives to expand. It should kick in and exapnd the files earlier rejected)
Unknown_K Full Member USA 602 Posts	Posted - 25 Mar 2003 : 00:31:48 Saving files on a PC with NTFS formatted hard drives (thats the Windows NT format) does not screw up the resource fork
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 25 Mar 2003 : 06:04:49 That is because of the special care MS takes in the WindowsNT services they slap onto NT 3.5, 4 and Win2000+ It's not NTFS, but rather the way that it all "happens" when you transfer over AFP to the NTbox Maybe it's NTFS... Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
Unknown_K Full Member USA 602 Posts	Posted - 25 Mar 2003 : 21:41:17 So is there a list of Hotline servers you guys use? I am used to FTP sites and maybe an irc channel for some mac software. I am looking for old 68K mac software and maybe some apple IIgs stuff. I currently have alot of old game software for the mac, and tons of amiga games/ pc dos software if anybody is interested.

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