On Jul 25, 2007, at 3:58 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote:

> Can anyone explain why the file, when copied directly over the
> network, displays as a .bin Macbinary file when viewed via FTP?

If Schoun is listening, he can give you more information than you  
want on this, I'm sure. But, here's my idea.

Apple's ftp server can do auto-conversion of files. Files with a  
resource fork are served up as MacBinary and are given the  
extension .bin. You can turn this behavior off somewhere in the ftp  
server preferences.

The solution I've used is to just kill off the resource fork. It's  
easily done with the command line, and that's how I usually do it,  
but there are programs such as GrimRipper [1] that also do it.

[1] <http://free.abracode.com/cmworkshop/grim_ripper.html>

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