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From: jkoerbe@hubcap.UUCP (jon c koerber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Gatekeeper Problems!!! (binhex/Stuffit/Packit)
Keywords: error bug dunno help
Message-ID: <4774@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 89 15:34:30 GMT
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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  For a couple of weeks now I have had absolutely no success in using
Binhex, stuffit, or packit to dearchive files that I have downloaded from
various places (stanford, cms, upenn, simptel, comp.binaries).  It was 
strange, because I used to have no problems whatsoever.  At first I thought
that my node here just had bad lines or very often (non-spurrious) errors.
Then After weeks of no successful downloading, I decided maybe it is my
problem.  Yesterday I hopped on my mac and using the Init-chooser began
removing Inits, control panel documents, etc... while at the same time trying
to un-stuff a file that I knew had no errors until it worked. Finally after
about a half hour The file Un-stuffed correctly (not that stuffit told me there
was any error before--it would just produce a file called "document"--no errs).
The culprit turned out to be an init called "Gatekeeper".  This problem may
have already circled around the net, and if it did, sorry I missed it.  But
for those of you out there running system 6.0.1 still, and using gatekeeper
with binhex or stuffit or packit for that matter , BEWARE!
  I found that If I want to temporarly disable Gatekeeper while doing any
kind of dearcing, I have no problems.

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