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From: jma@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (James M. Alexander)
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Subject: Re: Oids Demo: Anyone get it to work?
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Date: 6 Mar 91 08:40:35 GMT
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I now have the thing working. Thanks for all the advice. The problem, it
seems, was in the headers. In the past, Stuffit has been able to de-Binhex
the files with the headers still there, so I assume that there was something
odd about the headers in these posts. There are two suggested solutions that
seem to work equally well: (1) Strip off the headers with an editor either 
before or after downloading the file or (2) Use a program (if your system has
it) called "mcvert <filename>" This will convert the Binhex 4.0 file to 
Macbinary II format without the problem Stuffit's algorithm seemd to have.
Also, if you happen to be using ZTerm, downloading it with the Zmodem
protocol will automatically convert this type of file to a Stuffit archive.

Jim
jma@earthquake.berkeley.edu