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From: wiseman@tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Compuserve .sit to IBM to MAC = problem
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Date: 29 Nov 90 14:59:21 GMT
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In article <90333.014526BKL100@psuvm.psu.edu> BKL100@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>I have downloaded a stuffed binary file from Compuserve onto my IBM pc.
>However, when I transfer the MS-DOS binary file to a MacIntosh via a
>Superdive with Apple file transfer utility, Stuffit fails to recognize the
>file as "unstuffable".  The Apple file transfer format is set to the default
>(binary translation) and I still have the problem.  Do I have to download the
>file directly to the Mac, or am I just doing something stupid?


Nothing stupid. AFE is stupid.

Your transfered file has the problem that AFE does not recognise MacBinary
files that are on DOS disks. When it transfered your file, it took ALL of the
binary data and put it into ONE file fork (ie. the data fork) instead of
spitting it into its different components.

I believe that there is a tool (I think it is called MacBinary) that will
expand your mac file into the proper form after transfer so that Stuffit can do
it.


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