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- Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 16:38:16 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Jesse Sightler <aa101605@dasher.csd.sc.edu>
- To: Clifford Thomas Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
- Cc: g.sightler@genie.geis.com, executor@nacm.com
- Subject: Re: SIT files
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- On Sun, 2 Jul 1995, Clifford Thomas Matthews wrote:
-
- > >>>>> "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.
-
- Really? Back when I was trying AOL files, all of them gave some sort of
- error right at the beginning and some wouldn't work at all (most of the
- time ignoring the error would make it work anyway, but sometimes even
- this didn't work). This is also why the IBM version of Stuffit won't
- work on Mac stuffit programs gathered off of AOL (from what I've heard,
- anyway).
-
- >
- > 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.
-
- Er, actually, CHOPHEAD may be more useful for other files. I'm not
- entirely sure, but this may keep the files from having an error at the
- beginning. I know that I was NEVER able to get any .sea files from AOL
- to work (though, I never got around to trying chophead). I guess I'll do
- a little checking tonight and get back with you, ok?
-
- >
- > 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
- >
- >
-
- Yeah, that would probably be the best thing. I just wonder why them AOL
- people chose to use a non-standard method for this in the first place
- (probably to make things "simpler" for their users).
-
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