Please help w/burning a IMG file of a MAC program with a PC for a MAC user

[Steven B.]

Hi all,
I have an IMG file and I don't know what program created it although I
do know that it is an image file of a MAC program. My question is, Is
there a way that I can use my PC to burn this image file to a MAC
usable state for a friend so that I can give him the CD and he can
install the program on his MAC?
If so could you please provide step by step "idiot proof" instructions
for me? Any help will be very much appreciated.
I have the following: Plextor 48/24/48A CD-RW and Nero, Adaptec Easy
CD creator 6, Clone CD and WinISO. Can it be done with these or do I
need something else?
Thanks in advance!!!
Regards,
Steve B.
[email]Drugsls@Hotmail.com[/email]

[Steven B.]

Tom,
Thanks for the response and the info. Regarding the img file. I did
download it as an IMG file so why or how did it get corrupted? I then
left it the was it was and tried to burn it. I am also in the process
of downloading the same file as a .sit file, so if I am able to get it
in this format, can you explain what I need to do from there?


On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:12:03 GMT, [email]th-usenet-hsa8e74s@xs4all.nl[/email] (Tom)
wrote:

>Steven B. <Drugsls@Hotmail.com> wrote:
>

>> I have an IMG file and I don't know what program created it although I
>> do know that it is an image file of a MAC program. My question is, Is
>> there a way that I can use my PC to burn this image file to a MAC
>> usable state for a friend so that I can give him the CD and he can
>> install the program on his MAC?
>> If so could you please provide step by step "idiot proof" instructions
>> for me? Any help will be very much appreciated.
>> I have the following: Plextor 48/24/48A CD-RW and Nero, Adaptec Easy
>> CD creator 6, Clone CD and WinISO. Can it be done with these or do I
>> need something else?

>
>It is likely that the .img file is already corrupted. One of the most
>popular programs to create .img files with, is Apple's own "Disk Copy". The
>.img files that it creates need to have both the "data fork" and the
>"resource fork"; two parts that each Macintosh file can have. If you have a
>Mac .img file on your PC, then the resource fork is lost. When trying to
>open (actually "mount") such a file, the Macintosh user will get an
>Unexpected End-of-file Error.
>
>When Macintosh file that rely on their resource fork are stored on non-Mac
>OS file systems, they need to be encoded. BinHex 4 (.hqx) or MacBinary
>(.bin) are suitable for just that. Storing the file in a StuffIt archive
>(.sit) also works. So, if you download a Mac file for someone else, leave
>it in it's encoded format, and just burn that as ISO 9660.
>
>Sorry I can't give you happier news,
>regards,
>Tom

Thanks in advance!!!
Regards,
Steve B.
[email]Drugsls@Hotmail.com[/email]

[Tacit]

>Regarding the img file. I did

>download it as an IMG file so why or how did it get corrupted?

A Macintosh file has two "parts," which are called a "data fork" and a
"resource fork."

The PC disk directory system is simpler than the Mac's. the PC can not store a
two-part file on disk. the instant you put a Mac file on a PC disk, the PC
removes the resource fork, because there's no way to store it in the disk's
directory and Windows does not understand two-part files.

So the file is destroyed, permanently, just by the process of placing it on a
PC disk.

A Mac can place the file onto a PC disk without destroying it, because the Mac
will break the file into two files and put the resource fork in a hidden folder
called "resource.frk". But Windows does not know about or understand two-part
files, so Windows will not do this.

Sorry...

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