Well, nothing was downloaded. the Applescript "do beep" app , named "*1" was uploaded to the OS 8 Mac via Ftp into that "Cron Events Folder". Without any .txt or anything as it's an Applescript app.

After a minute Cron Manager triggered it to be opened by the finder, but the resource forks being gone, it could not see it as an app.

So I suppose the system checked what application could be used to open the file , found it was a text file and opened it as an empty file (white page) with SimpleText.

The Applescript was uploaded from a Mac OSX 10.5 running MacMini using Ftp, which destroy any classic mac resource forks, if i had used a classic Mac to upload it ,running say OS 8 like the test machine, I would have connected with Appletalk, and the resources would have been preserved.

So a good way to preserve these using another file transfer protocol, is using Dropstuff.

Note the script was done and stuffed on the test mac, to avoid any incompatibilities if ever it was done and compressed with more recent versions of Applescript and Dropstuff. Then send to the OS X MacMini, to be send back to the test OS8 Mac

Here is an excellent summary of the resource forks on Mac on the PPC Luddite blog :

http://ppcluddite.blogspot.fr/2012/11/a-little-about-resource-forks.html