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From: tombs@ee.rochester.edu (Thomas Tombs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: I need help with these MAC files!!
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.133116.8972@ee.rochester.edu>
Date: 25 Jan 91 13:31:16 GMT
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In article <1991Jan25.101503.1763@marlin.jcu.edu.au> glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd) writes:
>
>I have the following MAC files and I don't know how to get them back to
>their original format.
>
>        7680 Dec  2 02:10 MouseScaling_sit_bin
>       89238 Jan 24 20:02 command-line-interface.hqx
>        6981 Jan 24 20:01 welcome-editor.hqx
>
>the first file is the main one i need to look at, I have access to
>Stuffit 1.5.1 but it can't recognise this file ?? Is it compressed
>with some other format ? I havn't tried the last two yet and if they
>are any different could someone please explain.
>
>thanks, Matt Crowd, glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au

.hqx files are encoded ASCII files.
To unstuff .hqx files you first must choose UUDECODE under the OTHER menu
in StuffIt.  This makes it a .sit file.  Note: .sit files are binary files 
and must be sent as such (i.e. when using ftp type BINARY before you send 
the file).  .sit files can then be unstuffed with Stuffit to their original 
form with the EXTRACT button after the archive is opened and selected.

Thomas Tombs                      tombs@ee.rochester.edu
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
University of Rochester           TEL:716-275-8091
Rochester, NY 14627               FAX:716-473-0486