Mac OS binary (ABIF) file to MS Windows

 
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Old 04-20-2010
Sorry, I ran out of time yesterday I'll try to take a look today.
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Old 04-20-2010
Here's my first try at a conversion. Can your mac read this file?
# 10  
Old 04-23-2010
mac file - abif

Hello,
no mac cannot open the file!
# 11  
Old 04-23-2010
I'm mystified. What error did it give?
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Old 04-24-2010
abif file

...it give not any error simply do not appaer in the scroll windows in the software and have the "PC" icon on...appears not is a MAc file!!!
Smilie
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Old 04-25-2010
hex editor

Hello,
I do some prove: I can intechange information between two MAC type file with the insert mode of the software "FlexHex"...but when I do the same betwwen MAc and Win file ...not work!
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Old 04-27-2010
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Originally Posted by vinciovincio
...it give not any error simply do not appaer in the scroll windows in the software and have the "PC" icon on...appears not is a MAc file!!!
Smilie
These are all ABIF files, very definitively so, with the same magic sequences, headers etc. and even the same byte-ordering. There's nothing "PC" or "Mac" about them at all. All I'm doing is rearranging it closer to the ordering your mac file has -- but the ABIF standard states the ordering can be totally arbitrary. If it's not using the header to detect ABIF files, I suspect there are "resource forks" involved telling the software extra info about a file, which I can't do anything about since they're not a proper part of the file. If you could find a way to make it 'show all files' I do think it might be able to load it. Maybe try giving the filename to it when launching the software from Terminal, or typing in the filename by hand. Or perhaps the software has an "import" option beyond the usual "file -> load".

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