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From: ralph@cbnewsj.att.com (Ralph Brandi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: UPDATE: Disinfectant/Compactor trouble
Message-ID: <1990Oct9.014431.29264@cbnewsj.att.com>
Date: 9 Oct 90 01:44:31 GMT
References: <2710a373.5e51@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Middletown, New Jersey
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In article <2710a373.5e51@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>, mjohnson@riglow.acs.calpoly.edu (Mark S. Johnson) writes:
 
> Several people wrote saying that they, too, have had trouble with the
> Compactor "self extracting archive" of Disinfectant 2.2.  Others wrote
> saying that they had no problem at all launching the ".sea" archive.
 
> "de-binhexing" it on my Mac, then double clicking to launch/extract it.
 
> I USUALLY use "xbin -b" to de-binhex ".hqx" files on a Unix host,
> followed by a MacBinary transfer to my Mac.  This method, however, has
> not worked for me when downloading ANY ".sea" file.
 
I had the same problem with the self-extracting archive after
getting it from acns.nwu.edu and running xbin on the VAX.  I was
able to decompress the file using the Extractor application.






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