THANK YOU: 307 FIXED!...? (was Re: MIDI files problem on a Mac:"Logical end-of-file reached..."

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

To all who offered help, I say THANK YOU.  You kids are an amazing 
resource of knowledge.  Last night I had success.... I think.  It seems 
OK.  I'm going to paste the letter I sent to Roland Customer support 
that's got the details if anyone is interested:

I just want to thank you for those files... they didn't work either.  
However, I was able to finally open them as MIDI files.  The key was 
telling Suffit NOT to assume they were text files upon decompression.  
And you have to do it with an older version of stuffit, as newer ones 
no longer give you that option.  If customers have this problem in the 
future tell them that Stuffit 5 has a control panel in it's preferences 
that says, "Cross Platform"  Make sure, "Open as text..." is checked 
NEVER.  Anyway, I was then able to open your files, but I'd start 
loading one and after one file was done the 307 would just start 
blinking "SYS" R, 3, 4 and 7.

A link sent to me by someone on the yahoo 307 group pointed me to an 
official Roland page that had the download.  (on the Roland Groove 
site) I tried the mac version, and that did not work either.  For 
giggles, I downloaded the PC version and it began to work!  What's up 
with those Mac files?  I DON'T KNOW.  So I get through all the Program 
files, and press 5 then 7 to get the display to switch to DAT and it 
won't happen.  No key sequence seemed to do anything.  Hrrm.  I 
rebooted and pressed 5 and 7, getting the DAT display.  I loaded one 
file and it started with the blinking again.  I gave up.  I figured it 
was off to Roland service for a while.  For some reason, I wanted to 
see if something I put in it stuck, so I tried booting her up... it 
worked!  There was good 'ol psy trance: the most annoying sequence 
ever!  I did a reset, and everything seems fine!  What are those data 
files?  Weird.  Funny thing is a emailed people who said they got it to 
work right off, but no one using a Mac.  I wonder if there's issues 
with the mac files you have and you don't know it.  I still can't help 
wondering about the loading of a .mid causing it to start blinking at 
the end of the file...and all the .dat files that didn't load... who 
knows?  Maybe I'll have it melt down later today and this will all be 
moot.

Thanks for your help,

Mark Sottilaro