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From: kjfair@midway.uchicago.edu (Kenneth Fair)
Subject: Re: LTOI Mac -> PC?
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In article <3190DD4A.4D04@earthlink.net>, russbryan@earthlink.net wrote:

>I believe you can just cut the filename down to eight characters, 
>add a .dat, and you'll be golden.  However (there's always a however) 
>you'll find that the Mac versions are all bundled together -- in other 
>words, the data file and run-time executable are combined in one file.  
>I THINK that the resource fork will just be ignored by the PC, so you 
>would be able to use ZIP to play the games.  I can't guarantee that, 
>though, so if you find that you MUST strip the resource fork, your 
>friend will, hopefully, have a program called ResEdit which will help 
>you with this problem.

My understanding is that the resource fork will be stripped off anyway
when you save it to the PC disk, so it shouldn't be a problem.

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