abriged version of the ReadMe...

With the arrival of NeXTIME, NeXTSTEP users have been interested
in picking up QuickTime movies just to see how well they work in
NeXTIME.  One cheap way to get a bunch of QuickTime clips is to
pick up "Apple QuickTime Developer CD, Version 1.0" from Educorp.

Once you have this CD, however, you find yourself up against a few
inconveniences.  For one, NeXTIME will only recognize a file as
being a QuickTime movie if it has a suffix of ".mov".  The CD-ROM,
setup for a MacOS, doesn't bother with filename suffixes.  The next
problem is that the filenames on the CD-ROM include characters
which make it challanging to work with them in Unix scripts.

The third thing is that the movies all depend on the Macintosh
resource fork for any given movie being around, and MacOS filesystem
support of NeXTSTEP does a pretty good job of keeping those resource
forks invisible.

      So....

Here's a tar file which should help out.  What it contains is a
directory called QuickTime1.0-CDlinks.  This is a tree of symbolic
links to files on the QuickTime CD.  So, *if* you have that CD-ROM
mounted, then you can use this tree-of-links to look at all the
QuickTime movies on the CD-ROM.  I've only included links to
Quicktime movies that are on the CD (along with the resource
forks for those movies), and I've only included those movies
which seem to at least start up in NeXTIME.  I don't know that
they all *run* in NeXTIME, but at least you shouldn't get too
many errors when opening the files.

For each QuickTime movie on the CD, you will see two files in this
QuickTime1.0-CDlinks directory.  For a movie named "Blastoff", you'd
see links "Blastoff.mov" and "Blastoff.mov.#rsrc#", for instance.

You can untar the directory to anywhere on your hard disk.  The
result will take up about 660k of disk space (and that's just for
*links* to all the movies...).  If you use Opener.app to extract
the directory, and if you run into trouble, the problem is probably
that your version of Opener.app is using "tar" instead of "gnutar"
to uncompress things.  If gnutar is used to expand the archive then
it should work fine.

I have no connection to EduCorp, other than I just bought this
CD-ROM from them and was determined to come up with a way to
use NeXTIME to view the QuickTime clips on it.  NeXTIME is a
trademark of NeXT, except that they spell it with a capital E.
QuickTime is a trademark of Apple.  Staying up late on foolish
errands is a trademark of me.

                  Garance Alistair Drosehn
		  gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
		  July 23rd, 1994