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- >>>>> "Jesse" == g sightler <g.sightler@genie.geis.com> writes:
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- 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
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