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From: ireland@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Problem with .SIT files on VAX
Message-ID: <1737@ac.dal.ca>
Date: 30 Jun 90 13:57:52 GMT
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Organisation: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Most of the sites which offer anonymous ftp that I've come across have the
mac programs in binhex format and I can download these programs without
any problems.  I've come across a couple of ftp sites recently which have
programs in .SIT format.  I suspect that I could download these files direct
to a Mac without problem, but I don't have ethernet in my mac, so I do
my ftping from the universities VAX 8800, which puts the .SIT files on the
VAX.  I then download the files from the VAX to my mac using the kermit
protocol in White Knight.  When I try to unstuff these files on the mac,
STuffit hangs the mac.  As a test, I uploaded a .SIT file from my mac to the
VAX and then downloaded it.  When trying to unstuff this test file, Stuffit
again hangs the mac.  How does one upload and download .SIT files to/from
a VAX?  Thanks for your help.

Keith Conover
Biochemistry Dept.
Dalhousie University
Keith@ac.dal.ca