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From: SAACC@CUNYVM.BITNET (Shermane Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Need help with ftp-->pc-->mac
Message-ID: <91040.012941SAACC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: 9 Feb 91 06:29:41 GMT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
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I'm a very new MAC user(2 days) but veteran PC user who needs help trying to
get .sit files from ftp sites to work right on my MAC. It was given to me in
my office(I have a PC there too), but I didn't get much in the way of software.
What I did was gather up some archive apps.
   StuffIt1.5.1, BinHex 4,0 and 5.0 and something called Compact.
(Unfortunately, the only one other MAC users in my department know how to
use is StuffIt).

Anyway, I downloaded .hqx and .sit files obtained by FTP to my
IBM mainframe to my PC at home, then put them on my MAC(I used Kermit,binary).
I was eventually able to successly convert the .hqx files to .sit using BinHex
4.0 or 5.0 and then was able to unstuff them.
unstuff them, but had a problem with the .sit files(directly from FTP sites).
I had a problem though with  .sit files obtained from FTP.
StuffIt doesn't recognize them as .sit files, and the icon shown for them
is just the document(not the special one for .sit files). Is there some other
conversion needed here -  (uudecode? BinHex(didn't work)), or do I have
to somehow set up some special options?



Any help will be appreciated. Please email me at the address above.
Thanks.