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Re: Unix->Mac transition [message #20694 is a reply to message #20693]

Tue, 18 July 2000 00:00

promashkin
Messages: 169
Registered: December 1999

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I have done code (.pro) transfering back and forth Unix - Mac a number
of times. I never had to either worry about line feeds not file type. I
guess my FTP defaults are set better than yours. However, I think that
feature called "Suffix mapping" in Fetch can help in this case. Create a
rule for extension .PRO to set creator to "MIDL" and type to "TEXT".
.SAV files have SIDL type, MIDL creator. This is how IDL sets the fork.
I don't even bother with this, as my default transfer type is TEXT, and
IDL opens TEXT type easily, although the icons on files in Finder aren't
as cute for non-IDL text files.
Once you get the files to the Mac, wait until you get "widget must be
realized before you can..." compiler message. I had a bunch of those
from the code that worked perfectly on Unix, once I tried to use it on
the same version of IDL on the Mac. Add to that the different-looking
GUI, and I am sure you will be pleased with the overall experience :-)
Good luck,
Pavel

Ben Tupper wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> We are transferring some IDL work from a UNIX (IDL5.2, SunOS Release 5.7
> Generic) to a Mac (IDL5.3, MacOS 9). I had cleverly thought that I
> could simply ftp the bazillion .pro files from one to the other and
> away-we-go! Hope springs eternal and fools are born each day. The
> Mac IDLDE is not recognizing the .pro files. We have set the file type
> to IDL text (just as the RSI example code is set) using the Mac's file
> exchange control panel. No luck. The OS seems to be insisting that
> the .pro text files are actually 'applications'. I'm beginning to
> suspect that the UNIX flavor of text must be changed in some way to fool
> the Mac.
>
> Any suggestions welcome. Thanks.
>
> Ben
>
> P.S. For what it's worth, the last Mac (a Mac PLUS) I spent time with
> had 4kb of memory, ran OS 6.01, had a mouse that looked like one, and
> didn't look so much like a tropical fish. Oh ,Toto, I don't think we
> are in Kansas anymore!
>
> --
> Ben Tupper
>
> Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science
> tupper@seadas.bigelow.org
>
> pemaquidriver@tidewater.net

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		Re: Unix->Mac transition By: Struan Gray on Wed, 19 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Unix->Mac transition By: Dennis J. Boccippio on Wed, 19 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Unix->Mac transition By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Tue, 18 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Unix->Mac transition By: promashkin on Tue, 18 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Unix->Mac transition By: Ben Tupper on Tue, 18 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Unix->Mac transition By: Ben Tupper on Tue, 18 July 2000 00:00
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		Re: Unix->Mac transition By: Struan Gray on Tue, 18 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Unix->Mac transition By: Ben Tupper on Tue, 18 July 2000 00:00
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