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Peekay
Macintosh OS9 and FTP
  • 2004/11/25 13:03

  • Peekay

  • XOOPS is my life!

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  • Since: 2004/11/20


Using Mac OS9, in theory, you should be able to download a Zip or tar.gz archive full of PHP files, de-compress it using 'Stuffit Expander' and upload the files to a Unix/Linux server using a Mac FTP program like 'Fetch' .

However, in practice I have found that on more than one occasion there are some PHP files that simply do not like being Mac-handled in this way.

If you FTP from Mac OS9 and have PHP applications or modules that mis-behave, you *might* solve the problem simply by de-compressing the archive on a PC (using a utility like WinZip) and uploading the files using a PC FTP app.

This happened to me recently with a fresh XOOPS install that seemed to upload from my Mac without error, but failed to work properly.

The infamous 'headers already sent' error can sometimes be a coding mistake, but for Mac FTP users, it can also indicate a corrupt file.

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m0nty
Re: Macintosh OS9 and FTP
  • 2004/11/25 14:38

  • m0nty

  • XOOPS is my life!

  • Posts: 3337

  • Since: 2003/10/24


nice tip :)

1 more reason why Mac users shud stick to doing graphics work or audio mixing, and use a decent computer such as a PC for web design.. lol

just kiddin.. (i'm sure a mac has other uses too) lol

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rocket98
Re: Macintosh OS9 and FTP
  • 2004/11/25 15:15

  • rocket98

  • Just popping in

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  • Since: 2004/6/2 2


That's why TEXT editors like BBEDIT were created.


Back in the day Stuffit Expander never behaved well yet a simple change of the program's prefs sufficed in correcting malformed behavior.

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Peekay
Re: Macintosh OS9 and FTP
  • 2004/11/25 19:37

  • Peekay

  • XOOPS is my life!

  • Posts: 2335

  • Since: 2004/11/20


Nine times out of ten we don't have a problem 'processing' downloaded apps on the Mac. We can come un-stuck if the original PHP files were composed, or edited, using a Unix/Linux Text Editor, because (as you already know rocket98) the end-of-line commands are different than Mac or Windows systems. The reliability in which archive decompression and FTP software deals with this discrepancy varies. There's some techy stuff on this at:

http://www.speedsoft.com/cgicentral/fixcrlf.html

http://kb.indiana.edu/data/agiz.html

Actually, if you un-zip Unix tar files uzing Winzip you have to be careful, because it has a configuration option called 'TAR file smart CR/LF conversion'. This might be good for viewing the archive contents on a PC, but not so good for re-uploading a PHP file to a Linux server where the original formatting may be important.

It's all good fun.

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coopersita
Re: Macintosh OS9 and FTP

I think the problem is using Mac os9... too old.

I use a mac osX, and it I've never had any problems like that.

I use bbedit with fetch to edit files. Works like a charm.

And for those who say we Mac users should stick to pretty pictures and editing multimedia, I have php and MySQL running on it. Mac osX runs over unix, and comes with apache, perl, and php preinstalled.

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