schiebel@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Darrell Schiebel) (10/19/89)
I have been trying (unsuccessfully!) to get a mac file: mactivation.3.2.sit.hqx.Z onto a Mac and running. What follows are my efforts to date: ".Z" - is easy uncompress in unix. ".hqz" - apparently compressed with an application BINHEX So I tried to find BINHEX: At net1.ucsd.edu they have "xbin" which un"BINHEX"s files unfoutunately it creates 3 files "mactivationx3x2xsit.data" "mactivationx3x2xsit.info" "mactivationx3x2xsit.rsrc" which seems incorrect because ".sit" seems to specify a "stuffit" archive. (How does one get these files to the Mac with the right Resource and Data forks ?? {assuming no sit compression}) At wsmr-simtel20.army.mil they have many file utilities includeing BINHEX50.SIT! Infact all of the files have the .SIT extension. So I down loaded it with the "binary" option on ftp. I also downloaded it onto the mac (with NCSA Telnet-FTP in Binary mode) which has StuffIt on it. However, when I attempt to UnStuffIt it gives an error message. ".sit" - StuffIt I would appreciate any help from a kind MacPerson. I have evidently messed up the files somehow. Many Thanks, Darrell Schiebel (schiebel@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu)