So I've been working with ThreeD ever since I got a NeXTStation with Openstep 4.2 and the App already installed. I wanted to put the .jpg or .tiff images onto a DOS floppy disk but it always says the file name is too long. Is there many way to get around this? or do I have to do a complicated setup with a Network and transfer files through it?
If it is about transfer of files, please try zipping your files into a 8.3 archive like files.zip (or files.tgz). DOS floppy should by happy with this names.
How would I unzip it? the applications on the FTP site either don't work or are too large for me to load onto a floppy.
My feeling is, that not having Opener.app (or similar package tool) installed on your NeXT is stopping you?
Transfering your files:1. On Linux PC or UNIX machine, please use tar command to create package move.tar
On Windows PC, please use tar from
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ to create package move.tar or -in case you are familiar with it- you can create move.tar with the great 7-zip tool.
On Mac there is surely also some solution to create a tar package.
2. Transfer move.tar on floppy to NeXT
3. Try to unpack with tar on NeXT
Step 3. may fail due to too old tar version of NeXTstep. Anyway this seems to me like a promissing approach to try.
Transfering big files:You can split a big file before copying onto multiple floppies.
E.g on Linux/UNIX you can use "split" to create multiple 1.4MB files. Transfer all the pieces to your NeXT and join them back with "cat file1 file2 file3 > bigfile"