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From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: StuffIt
Summary: What are these .sit files?
Keywords: Unix, StuffIt
Message-ID: <1990Sep30.035543.24747@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: 30 Sep 90 03:55:43 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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I retrieved some *.sit files form a Unix site
after uuencoding/uudecoding them.
UnStuffIt didn't like the files,
even after using ResEdit to change their type to SIT!
On comparing the files with a file created with StuffIt,
I discovered that the mailed files had 128 bytes at the start
not present in the StuffIt file.
These 128 bytes started with SIT!SIT!
which I take to be the type and creator of the file.

On excising these 128 bytes, I found that UnStuffIt would now work,
although it complained about the header.
As far as I could see, the files UnStuff'ed perfectly.

My question is: Is there a utility to convert these mail files
to proper StuffIt format?
And how were they created in the first place?


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Timothy Murphy  

e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie