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Received: from relay1.geis.com (relay1.geis.com [192.77.188.2]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA23818 for <executor@nacm.com>; Sat, 6 May 1995 10:18:10 -0700 From: g.sightler@genie.geis.com Received: by relay1.geis.com (1.37.109.11/15.6) id AA098930686; Sat, 6 May 1995 17:18:06 GMT Message-Id: <199505061718.AA098930686@relay1.geis.com> Date: Sat, 6 May 95 16:56:00 UTC To: executor@nacm.com Subject: D/L'ing MAC programs in DOS. X-Genie-Id: 3661449 X-Genie-From: G.SIGHTLER Sender: owner-executor@nacm.com Precedence: bulk I have downloaded 4 programs off of AOL. My problem is that none of them have a "resource fork". With the ".sit" archives I have been able to set the creator with the "GetInfor" menu item and type to "SIT!" (w/o the quotes, of course) and then Stuff-it will recognize them as stuffit archives. However, all but one of the 3 stuffit programs that I have D/L'ed have given an error while unzipping them (something about corrupted archive). They seem to work anyway, but I'm wondering what causes that error message. It appears that the first few bytes of every file is corrupted somehow and that may help to explain my next problem. :) One of the files is a SEA file, so I figured that since every other executable is a data-type APPL, I would set this to APPL and run it. Well, whenever I did that it crashed out of executor with a General Protection Fault. So, then I tried running a text file as APPL, just out of curiousity, and I found that it delivers an almost identical error message (as far as I can tell). So, my question is, how do you folx out there D/L files on the IBM said and get them into executor without corrupting them. BTW, I am using Executor 1.99m on a Compaq 486/66 if that helps at all. :) ||||| Jesse D. Sightler |||||