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From: tom@stubby.UUCP (Tom Roehl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Need help with ftp-->pc-->mac
Message-ID: <392@stubby.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 91 15:43:27 GMT
References: <91040.012941SAACC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Organization: Digital Analysis Corp., Reston, VA
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From article <91040.012941SAACC@CUNYVM.BITNET>, by SAACC@CUNYVM.BITNET (Shermane Austin):
> 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?
> 
I couldn't figure out your address from my site, so I had to poast, sorry.

One thing that I have found, is that StuffIt files sometimes do not get the
right file type set when you download them.  What I do is go into ResEdit, and
bring up the window that has the file.  Next hit command-I for info (DO NOT
double click.  This will bring up a new window with information about the file.
The first field is something like file type.  In my case, the type would be
'SITD' and I would have to change it to 'SIT!' ( it may be reversed for you.)
Anyway, reverse this field, and save the changes with command-S.  Quit ResEdit,
and try it again.  Hopefully, it should now work!

Tom


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