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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA28251 for <executor@nacm.com>; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 13:36:07 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id OAA24923; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 14:36:05 -0600 Received: from beaut.ardi.com by mailhost with smtp (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0sSVjM-000YbmC; Sun, 2 Jul 95 14:35 MDT Received: by beaut.ardi.com (linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0sSVjM-00000BC; Sun, 2 Jul 95 14:35 MDT Message-Id: <m0sSVjM-00000BC@beaut.ardi.com> Date: Sun, 2 Jul 95 14:35 MDT From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford Thomas Matthews) To: g.sightler@genie.geis.com Cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: SIT files In-Reply-To: <199507021944.AA168234250@relay1.geis.com> References: <199507021944.AA168234250@relay1.geis.com> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Jesse" == g sightler <g.sightler@genie.geis.com> writes: Jesse> Cliff, >> The archives that we've had the hardest time figuring out are >> the AOL ones. It appears that some AOL archives really are >> .SIT files and all you need to do is change the file type and >> creator to "SIT!" and run them through Stuffit Expander, but >> other just don't decompress that way. We've asked AOL for some >> more information, but progress has been slow so far. Jesse> Yes, and when you do this you will ALWAYS get an error at Jesse> the beginning of the file, right? Wrong. If it really is a stuffit archive and it hasn't been damaged, you should get no error message at all. Jesse> Have you tried using Jesse> CHOPHEAD (if I remember the filename properly) to do this? Jesse> Its a file in the AOL libraries that chops of the custom Jesse> AOL header so that you can use MAC .sit archives with the Jesse> IBM version of Stuffit Expander. We didn't use chophead on the file that was really a stuffit archive and the other file we tested wasn't a stuffit archive at all, so chophead wouldn't have helped in the least. Jesse> It may also be a good Jesse> idea to search the IBM libraries for Stuffit information, Jesse> because if I remember correctly there was a discussion Jesse> about this a while back because the IBM version of Stuffit Jesse> also had problems with AOL files (it won't even recognize Jesse> them as .SIT archives). Maybe. I'm not the one handling the AOL stuff, but I have looked at a few files and I think the best thing would just be for someone at AOL to explain what the various formats are that they use. --Cliff