Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!xavier!jackiw From: jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: PIT files Message-ID: Date: 1 Mar 90 01:44:41 GMT References: <1714@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk> Sender: news@xavier.swarthmore.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw) Organization: Visual Geometry Project, Swarthmore College, PA Lines: 23 jeremyr@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak) writes: > > I've just downloaded a file which, when deBinHexed (wonderful word!) has > produced a file named xx.pit (no, not .sit) with filetype and creator > PIT_ (_=space). What is this? What can I do with it? Help! > > Jeremy Roussak It's a PackIt file, a less popular file-compressor than StuffIt. If you have StuffIt 1.5.1, you can use the unPack command in the Other menu to access this. Please keep non-programming questions out of comp.sys.mac.programmer. -Nick -- "'I have seen too often your filthy teeth snap with rage and your august countenance, covered with the fungus of time, blush like a flaming coal because of some microscopic futility that man had commited, to be able to pause longer before the signpost of that silly hypothesis.'" -Maldoror