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- g.sightler@genie.geis.com writes:
- > >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.
- >
- > Yes, and when you do this you will ALWAYS get an error at the beginning of
- > the file, right?
-
- If it works you won't get an error message of any sort; you'll just get a
- working file. The error message signifies that something's wrong.
- Executor seems to believe that the archives are corrupted in some way, but
- this seems unlikely since AOL checks all its files before making them
- available for downloading.
-
- > Have you tried using CHOPHEAD (if I remember the filename
- > properly) to do this? Its a file in the AOL libraries that chops of the
- > custom AOL header so that you can use MAC .sit archives with the IBM version
- > of Stuffit Expander.
-
- Yes, I've tried various things with the Mac-for-DOS utilities like
- chophead.exe and unstuff.exe.
-
- > It may also be a good idea to search the IBM libraries
- > for Stuffit information, because if I remember correctly there was a
- > discussion about this a while back because the IBM version of Stuffit also
- > had problems with AOL files (it won't even recognize them as .SIT archives).
-
- That is not the problem, though. Our trouble is that Executor recognizes
- them as Stuffit archives but believes them to be damaged and unusable.
-
- I'll let the list know if and when I have a surefire method of getting
- them to work. If any AOL users would like to tell me which specific files
- you are and aren't having trouble with, it might help me.
-
- Melissa
- melissa@ardi.com
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