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From: dan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Dan Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: I NEED TO FIND SOMEONE WITH STUFFIT DELUXE
Message-ID: <1990Nov12.012807.28402@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
Date: 12 Nov 90 01:28:07 GMT
Organization: Brandeis University Computer Science Dept
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I hope someone out there will be able to help me out... I came across a new
copy of Stuffit Classic 1.6 the other day, and I decided to try it out by
decompressing an old Stuffit 1.5.1 archive that I've got on disk. Before
it could begin decompressing, it had to convert it to a Stuffit Classic
compatible archive. It warned me that this process would be irreversible,
but I figured there would be no problem so I said "OK" and continued.

What a stupid idea!

It turns out that the files were originally Stuffit'ed using the encryption
and password feature. Stuffit Classic refuses to unstuff the encrypted files;
it says I have to purchase Stuffit Deluxe to do that!

So now I'm faced with a terrible situation: Some very important papers
(English and computer science reports for the past two years, along with
my resume) are trapped in a file which can only be unstuffed by a program
that I do not own! I don't have the bucks to blow on Stuffit Deluxe...

So I'm asking for help - if anyone out there has a copy of Stuffit Deluxe,
who would be willing to use it to decrypt my archived files, I'd sure
appreciate it. Alternately, does anyone know of a freeware program which
will handle decryption of my archive? Thanks!

_Dan








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