jeremyr@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak) (02/28/90)
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
jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw) (03/01/90)
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
jeremyr@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak) (03/01/90)
Many thanks to everyone who replied to my request for info on PIT files. For anyone who doesn't already know (only me, it seems!), they're PackIt archives, unpackable my StuffIt. Jeremy Roussak
levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) (03/01/90)
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 = Nets: levin@bbn.com | "There were sweetheart roses on Yancey Wilmerding's or {...}!bbn!levin | bureau that morning. Wide-eyed and distraught, she POTS: (617)873-3463 | stood with all her faculties rooted to the floor."
Leo.Bores@f14.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Leo Bores) (03/02/90)
In an article of <28 Feb 90 15:03:24 GMT>, jeremyr@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Jeremy
Roussak) writes:
JR>I've just downloaded a file which, when deBinHexed (wonderful word!)
JR>has
JR>produced a file named xx.pit (no, not .sit) with filetype and creator
JR>PIT_ (_=space). What is this? What can I do with it? Help!
JR>
JR>Jeremy Roussak
You need a shareware program called PACKIT III to unpack (decompress) that
file. Your sysop can get it for you from EyeNet (114/14) - 1-602-941-3747.
Leo Bores, M.D.
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Internet: Leo.Bores@f14.n114.z1.fidonet.orgLeo.Bores@f14.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Leo Bores) (03/02/90)
In an article of <1 Mar 90 01:44:41 GMT>, jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick
Jackiw) writes:
NJ>Please keep non-programming questions out of comp.sys.mac.programmer.
This showed up in the general echo so maybe you have some cross-linking on your
system.
Leo Bores
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