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Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 20:50:35 -0400
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Subject: Re: Trouble D/L'ing w/ Ex _DOS_.:)
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>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
