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Re: Trouble D/L'ing w/ Ex _DOS_.:)



>Tim,
> 
> >You download only files with hqx extensions.  These are binhex
> >encoded, and will reside happily on a DOS filesystem.  You then
> >unpack that from inside Executor.  Don't download the pure .sea and
> >.sit files, they won't be transferred properly (even in Binary
>mode).
> 
>Ok, then this was my problem.  I was downloading the pure .sea files.
>Is
>there any way to get these files?  It seems that on these the pure
>.sea
>forms are the only ones available on AOL.

SIT files CAN be downloaded.  There is a program called "unstuff/pc".  It
decompresses SIT files into MacBinary files.  This will allow you to get the
files into your HFV files correctly.  Also, stuffit SEA files can be
downloaded, with a little bit more difficulty.  Just hex-edit the first four
bytes of the file to "SIT!".  Unstuff/pc will then recognize the file.  Also,
the StuffIt Expander program will work with the hex-edited file, but it will
complain about how the file is "corrupted" (not because of your hex-editing,
but because of AOL).  StuffIt Expander will still decompress the file
correctly.

> 
>||||| Jesse D. Sightler |||||


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