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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
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Subject: Re: PIT files
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Date: 1 Mar 90 13:56:16 GMT
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In article <1714@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk> 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!

You have a Packit file, which was created with Harry Chesley's Packit
III, a precursor of StuffIt.  If you have StuffIt, you can unpack a
PIT file using "Unpack..." under the "Other" menu.

	/JBL
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