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- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 20:51:32 -0500
- From: Greg Turner <gregt@interaccess.com>
- Subject: Re: binhex/compact probs?
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- On Wed, 16 Nov 1994, Preston J. Tuchman wrote:
-
- > >Hiya alls - i've dl's (ok, ftp'd :) a couple of files off of the net to
- > >try to use with executor. For somee of these, I need to use the binHex4.0
- > >converter in Compact pro, in others, I need to use the binHex5.0 that's
- > >included with exectutor. Occasionally, I'll get a file that I would de
- > >hex with binHex 4.0, and I would get a .sit file - however, unstuffit
- > >refuses to see this file! Any ideas here? Perhaps I should try to use
- > >binHex 5.0 on the file? (though, if 5.0 doesn't like the file - it hangs
- > >the emulator).
- > >
- > >BTW - this is executor running under linux (I'm still stuck in demo mode -
- > >since i can't register till next week sometime - would that be part of the
- > >problem?).
- > >
- >
- > Hi, Daniel:
- >
- > Pretty frustrating, isn't it? I have the same problems, also. Not every file
- > is like that, but I would say close to half of them are. I haven't figured
-
- yeah, this bugs me too. The kludge that has worked for me in the past
- (this is *highly* questionable, but it has worked) to binhex some random
- file, and name it something like "pretend.bin". Then I've just left the
- %pretend.bin file lying around and simply copied whatever file I want to
- deBinHex right onto pretend.bin, leaving the %pretend.bin unchanged.
- Amazingly, this has never failed for me. After doing this, I just
- unBinHex pretend.bin and it seems to work fine. Of course, I use the
- Linux version, so long filenames w/ capitalization might be handled
- differently in Ex/Dos....
-
- btw, I just went to the Linix 1.1.62 kernel, and the executor segfaults
- right after the opening screen. :( Will this be fixed in future
- Executors, or is there a kernel "cutoff" after which I should forget it?
-
- -gmt
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