From: Al Stangenberger (forags_at_nature.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 13:30:14 PDT
Following up on Greg's excellent suggestion, if the disks also have a
file/folder named resource.frk
then that's a pretty good clue that they were on a Mac at some point in
their lives.
-Al
At 01:16 PM 6/26/03 -0700, Greg Paschall wrote:
>I wonder if when these files got put onto a pc floppy, their filenames got
>truncated to 8.3 format. Maybe these were the non-8.3 names (non pc), and
>not actually filetype extensions, in which case you may be dealing with
>mac files:
>
>cact-n-a.genus
>cact-n-a.number
>cact-n-a.quantity (or .quality)
>
>coryph.number
>coryph.quantity (or .quality)
>coryph.species
>
>opuntia.bes (no idea)
>opuntia.number
>opuntia.species
>
>agavemex.name
>agavemex.number
>agavemex.quantity (or .quality)
>
>If it's a mac... have you tried filemaker? Or even simple word or excel?
>
>Greg Paschall
>
>-----
>At 11:05 AM -0700 6/26/03, Holly Forbes wrote:
>>Dear All,
>>
>>We received a large photographic slide collection of mostly cacti (ca.
>>15,000), accompanied by the donor's 3 1/2 inch PC-formatted floppy disks
>>of what are reported to be the inventory/catalogues of these
>>slides. Whether the source was from a PC or a Mac isn't certain. Most
>>of the files are small, ca. 38 KB.
>>
>>We have tried, some talented students have tried, but no luck finding a
>>way to use them.
>>
>>The files have the following types of names (and date to 1992 and 1993):
>>cact-n-a.gen
>>cact-n-a.num
>>cact-n-a.qua
>>
>>and others that appear to be related:
>>coryph.num
>>coryph.qua
>>coryph.spe
>>
>>and other apparent groupings:
>>opuntia.bes
>>opuntia.num
>>opuntia.spe
>>
>>agavemex.nam
>>agavemex.num
>>agavemex.qua
>>
>>There are also some files that end with ".bdb", ".nam", ".bst", ".tot",
>>".ncf", ".wor"
>>Some configuration files are labeled "macros" or "works"
>>
>>Suggestions for how to proceed would be most welcome.
>>
>>Thank you,
>>
>>Holly Forbes
>>
>>
>>*****************************************************************************
>>Holly Forbes, Curator
>>University of California
>>Botanical Garden
>>200 Centennial Drive, #5045
>>Berkeley, CA 94720-5045
>>
>>http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/garden/
>>
>>Phone: 510-643-8040
>>FAX: 510-642-5045
>>hforbes_at_uclink4.berkeley.edu
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>>
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