On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Andrew C. Bairnsfather wrote:
which, again, is why I think it's probably easiest to just get people
in the habit of stuffing / zipping / etc files before upload or download.
Um...not very perl oriented solution here, but how about using an email
program like Eudora
MacOS X is phasing out the metadata stuff in favor of 3-character
filename extensions, so one solution is to wait a year -- your users
will mostly be upgraded to X, and the problem will be gone!
Thus they refuse to open in the original application.
Are you saying that (1) when you double-click
Ben Crowell wrote:
MacOS X is phasing out the metadata stuff in favor of 3-character
filename extensions, so one solution is to wait a year -- your users
will mostly be upgraded to X, and the problem will be gone!
Ironically, we have OSX 10.1 and 9.x on almost all the computers. None
of
At 12:49 pm -0500 22/12/01, David MacAlpine wrote:
1. Have everyone use ms explorer for the mac. Not sure why, but ms
explorer seems to keep the creator/type associated with the file, wherease
netscape and mozilla do not. (Is msexplorer binhexing the data on the
fly???) The majority of the lab
on 12/22/01 11:49 AM, David MacAlpine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings,
I work in primarily mac based biology lab. Some of the molecular biology
software we use stores the data in binary form. I've set up a web based
database using mySQL and perl for macosx to organize some of our
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Bob Dalgleish wrote:
1) It is critical that the file type and creator codes be uploaded with the
files and stored in the database. [snip]
B) It is critical to provide these type and creator codes in exactly the
same way when you download them. [snip]
which, again,
which, again, is why I think it's probably easiest to just get people
in the habit of stuffing / zipping / etc files before upload or download.
Um...not very perl oriented solution here, but how about using an email program like
Eudora that sends type/creator codes?
Eudora will take care
Greetings,
I work in primarily mac based biology lab. Some of the molecular biology
software we use stores the data in binary form. I've set up a web based
database using mySQL and perl for macosx to organize some of our data. One
problem I've run into are these darn binary data files. I
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, David MacAlpine wrote:
2. Have the users binhex the file before storing it in the database.
Not likely most users would be baffled.
I'm newish to the Mac world -- a year or so -- but my understanding is
that this is generally the canonical way to transfer files around
