From: masika@bnr.ca (Nicholas Masika)
Subject: ACK! Can't convert Type 1 Mac to PC
Reply-To: masika@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 05:08:04 GMT

I have a PC and Adobe Type Manager and would *love* to get the Star Trek
fonts.

So, I followed the instructions in the FAQ and got all the necessary utilities
for converting Mac Type 1 to PC Type 1 fonts and then downloaded the Star Trek
fonts that come as .HQX files.  No problem! :-)

This is what I did with STARTREK.HQX:

First, I ran XBIN which successfully extracted STARTR.DAT  :-)

Then to list the .DAT archive, I used EXTRACT with the following command line:

extract -l startr.dat

and it displayed:

****** ExtractorPC 1.00 ******
Copyright 1991 by Bill Goodman
     All Rights Reserved

Name                                          Expanded   Compacted  Saved  Type
Star Treks                                  ----------  ----------   ---   ----
: StarTrekClassic.bmap                            3552        1772   50%   FFIL
: StarTrekClassicMovies.bmap                      4862        2465   49%   FFIL
: StarTrekTNGCrille.bmap                          7858        4666   41%   FFIL
: StarTrekTNGTitle.bmap                           5431        2524   54%   FFIL
:Star Trek Fonts READ ME                          1869        1100   41%   TEXT
:StarTreCla                                      15800       14701    7%   LWFN
:StarTreClaMov                                   20446       19906    3%   LWFN
:StarTreTNGCri                                   31670       30198    5%   LWFN
:StarTreTNGTit                                   18423       17579    5%   LWFN
Archive Overhead                                                28    0%
   9 file(s) in archive:                        109911       94939   14%

:-)

So I tried to extract all the files by typing:
extract startr.dat -b -u

and it creates a directory called NAME0001 with a file NAME0002 which
is the READ ME file in the archive (but only that one file).  If I
specify any file with the -e  option of extract, like so:

extract startr.dat -b -u -f -e"StarTreCla"

it displays:
****** ExtractorPC 1.00 ******
Copyright 1991 by Bill Goodman
     All Rights Reserved


No errors.  All files were successfully extracted.

but nothing gets extracted.  :-(

I even tried appending the type extension to it:
extract startr.dat -b -u -f -e"StarTreCla.lwfn"

it replies:
****** ExtractorPC 1.00 ******
Copyright 1991 by Bill Goodman
     All Rights Reserved


Error:  Unable to find the file/folder 'STARTRECLA.LWFN'.

I have only been able to extract the readme file from this and other MAC
archives.  Has anyone successfully managed to extract anything but the 
readme file?

Any help is greatly appreciated!
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