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ImportFl
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<p> Download </p>
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<p> <a href="https://www.gryphel.com/d/minivmac/extras/importfl/importfl-1.2.2.zip">importfl-1.2.2.zip</a>
(<a href="https://www.gryphel.com/d/minivmac/extras/importfl/importfl-1.2.2.inf.txt">info</a>)
a zipped hfs disk image and checksum file.
The disk image can be mounted with Mini vMac.
Includes source code.
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<p> ImportFl is an application to use in Mini vMac (version 3.0.0 or later)
to import files into the emulated computer
from the real computer. </p>
<p> When ImportFl is the active application running in the emulated computer,
then any of the methods normally used to mount a disk image will
instead import a file. For example, dragging the icon of the file to
be imported into the Mini vMac window. </p>
<p> <b>warning:</b> When attempting to use ImportFl, if you see a
dialog asking if you want to initialize the disk, choose
“Eject”, not “Initialize”!
This will happen if ImportFl is not
actually the active application, in which case the file
you are attempting to import is treated as a disk image.
Choosing “Initialize” will turn it into a valid disk image,
destroying parts of the previous content. </p>
<p> ImportFl is mostly useful for importing archives, since it only
imports the data fork of a file, not Macintosh specific
information such as the resource fork, the file type, the
file creator, and comments.
(In particular, applications are mostly contained in
the resource fork, and so can not be imported with ImportFl.
And aside from OS X, most other modern operating systems
don't support resource forks, and so can not correctly
store an old Macintosh application, and so there is
nothing that ImportFl could import anyway.)
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Since ImportFl doesn’t receive Macintosh file type
and creator information from the real computer,
it sets the file type of the imported file to
“BINA” and the creator type to “SITx”.
That creator type belongs to
<a href="https://www.gryphel.com/c/sw/archive/stuffexp/index.html">Stuffit Expander</a>,
which can deal with most archive types you would want to import.
So double clicking on the imported file will launch Stuffit Expander,
if it is available. If it is not available, double clicking on
the imported file will result in an error message. In System 6:
‘The file “<file_name>” could not be
opened/printed (the application is busy or missing).’
In System 7: ‘The document “<file_name>” could
not be opened, because the application program that created it could
not be found.’
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Many old archives can be unpacked with
<a href="https://www.gryphel.com/c/sw/archive/stuffexp/index.html">Stuffit Expander 4.0.1</a>.
However, it is common to encounter a Stuffit file that requires
a more recent version of Stuffit Expander than will run on
a Macintosh Plus. In that case, it will often work with
Stuffit Expander 5.5, available from the same page, running on
the Macintosh II emulation of Mini vMac. If an even later version
of Stuffit Expander is required, you could uncompress it on a different
Macintosh emulator, such as Basilisk II, or a real Macintosh.
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If what you are importing is not an archive, you can
fix the file type and file creator with
utilities like
<a href="https://www.gryphel.com/c/sw/sysutils/fndrinfo/index.html">Finder Info</a>
or
<a href="https://www.gryphel.com/c/sw/sysutils/crtrchng/index.html">Creator C
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