Technical Data Sheet
Summary: Technical Data Sheet Page: main entry point to all technical data sheet published on different aspects of the data conversion and file transfer operations between Macintosh and PC.
Technical Data Sheet
- Macintosh HFS and hybrid (HFS/ISO 9660) CD-ROMs - Why are they different? How to create such CD-ROMs on a PC?
- Internet and Macintosh files (How to convert data files received as appended files, how to ascertain their origin, hints and tips...)
- Macintosh Icons
- Quick Time files and how to flatten them
- Apple PC Exchange and why it is better not to rely on it when you are serious about getting on your PC files created on the Macintosh.
- Macintosh signatures - What are the signatures? How does the Finder uses the signatures to launch the programs? A table of frequent signatures to help you ascertain the origin of a file.
- Macintosh fonts and how to convert them.
- Forks in Macintosh files - Why are Macintosh files different? What are the forks exactly? What is in the resource fork and what is not there?
- Apple Single and Apple Double files - The current standard to store both file forks on any magnetic medium
- Hidden Macintosh files - What are those files with a leading dot?
- Macintosh image files - What are those files with a dmg extension?
- MacBinary standard - What is the MacBinary standard? How to convert such files?
- Compressed files - How to transfer compressed files between Mac and PC.
- SEA archives - How to extract sea archives on a PC. How to install on a Mac medium a sea archive downloaded on a PC.
- BinHex Format (HQX) - What is the BinHex standard? How to convert such files?
- Hints & Tips - All you wanted to know about file exchanges.
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3, rue Pierre Haret - F-75009 Paris (France) - Tel. (+33) [0]149 700 455
web: http://www.macdisk.com