The files came from a 400k floppy disk, transferred to an 800k disk, to a Mac Classic, to a 1.4MB disk, to an iMac G5, to a flash drive, to my MacBook... Quite a long list of transfers, I know. I wouldn't be surprised if something got messed up along the way...
On Saturday, March 8, 2014 3:12:12 PM UTC-5, The One True Stickman wrote: > > Incomplete send... > * I'm admittedly not very familiar with the current relationship > between OS X and resource forks and all that. That could have happened > in transfer depending where the files came from and how they were > transferred. (Unless you've already eliminated that possibility - I > only mention it because I've borked more than one mac program by not > binhexing before storing on and subsequently trying to move things > around a linux box.) > > On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 3:07 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Since OS X recognizes them as unix files, is it possible they have > > corrupt resource forks or have lost the resource fork? I'm admittedly > > not very familiar with That still doesn't explain why they show > > completely blank, though. > > > > Here are a couple more ideas to try for viewing that may work better > > for binary files: > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1765311/viewing-file-in-binary-in-terminal > > > https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/od.1.html > > > > > Stickman > > > > On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Tom Frikker > > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Thanks for all the replies, they're all great ideas. > >> > >> I'm using TextWrangler for OS X... I tried vim, no difference. > >> > >> Using cat to make a text file, the resulting file shows the same text > as > >> just opening the original files with a text editor does. > >> > >> Using cat to just spit everything into the terminal just results in a > long > >> line of question marks. > >> > >> And to clarify, I believe these files are either just resource data > files or > >> small programs written in 68000 assembly. > >> > >> > >> On Saturday, March 8, 2014 7:52:07 AM UTC-5, Koralatov wrote: > >>> > >>> On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 02:24, Tom Frikker wrote: > >>> > I have files to be transferred to a floppy disk for the Mac 128k on > my > >>> > computer. Two of the files are called Unix Executable Files by my > >>> > MacBook Pro. Apparently, according to a text editor, they are empty. > >>> > >>> Which text editor did you use to open the files? TextEdit sometimes > >>> does that, but I've had more success using vim, which tends to be less > >>> clever and treat the file as a string of bytes. > >>> > >>> > Obviously, this is not the case, as they are both 397KB. Does anyone > >>> > know how to open these files, or how to see the code in them? It's > >>> > very important that I figure out how to open these files. > >>> > >>> As above --- try vim. > >>> > >>> Failing that, have you tried an inelegant brute-force approach and > tried > >>> to use cat to pipe the file contents into a new file? Something like: > >>> > >>> $ cat OLD_MAC_FILE > TEXTFILE.TXT > >>> > >>> Hope that helps. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Mike | <http://koralatov.com> > >>> 15.4" `Penryn' MacBook Pro 2.66 | 20" iMac G4 > >>> `Key Lime' iBook G3 466 | G4 Cube 500 > >> > >> -- > >> -- > >> ----- > >> You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs > >> group. > >> The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and > our > >> netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > >> To post to this group, send email to > >> [email protected]<javascript:> > >> To leave this group, send email to > >> [email protected]<javascript:> > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > >> > >> Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > >> --- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "Vintage Macs" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
