On Monday 20 September 2004 02:18 pm, [email protected] wrote:
Every time I've copied a Mac file onto a PC floppy, there's extra files which aren't mentioned in the Mac directory listing. If I just get the torrent file and start downloading, will the torrent file create the extra files, or will the resulting file be unreadable by Macs?
Older Mac files have a "forked" structure, which looks to DOS like two files, a "header" file and a "body" file. There are formats such as Stuffit Self Expanding files (usually .sea) that allow a non-Mac system to handle Mac files, that's the best method for transferring them. It's possible to create Mac FS support on a Linux box, but compressed archives offer additional protection against transmission error.