moving files from Mac to Unix partitions

[Dan Gerson]

I assume that this has been mentioned before, but I had some problems moving tar
files which I had on a mac partition to unix.  The problem appears to be that
the files were TEXT/????, and apparently the A/UX finder translates files it is
copying from the mac to unix if it believes them to be text, presumably doing
newline translations.  I got around this by using disktop or something to change
the file type to ????/????, dragging them to unix, and then running fcnvt to get
rid of the resource fork created when I changed the file type.

This isn't really a complaint; it is reasonable for the finder to translate
text files.  The only real problem was that NCSA telnet writes out a file
as TEXT even though the transfer was done in binary mode.  However, I was
wondering if this behavior of the Finder was documented.  I couldn't find
it in the docs I got with the A/UX Accessory Kit, and "finder" doesn't
seem to have a man page.  If this isn't documented, it should be.

Dan Gerson
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center