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- From: jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton)
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- Subject: Re: To take arms against a .SEA of troubles
- Date: 9 Jul 1996 13:51:48 GMT
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- EricB@pobox.com (ericb@psu.edu (Eric Bennett)) wrote:
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- > To the original author: How did you get the file into Executor?
- > If you ever had the .sea file on a PC drive and the file had no
- > other extension (.sea.hqx or .sea.bin) then most likely you've
- > lost the self-extracting code (which is in the original file's
- > resource fork).
-
- It came in the mail, uuencoded as ThisFile.sea, and I uudecoded it
- under Unix before looking at it in Executor. If the self-extracting
- code is supposed to live in the resource fork, then I assume that
- the friend who sent it (a Mac person, but not very technically
- literate) lost it in the uuencoding process. I've already asked
- her to resend it as a .hqx or .bin.uu or almost anything else, so
- I think the problem will soon be solved. Forks are evil....
-
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