cberg@leadsv.UUCP (Charles R Berg) (07/24/89)
Here's another question from a novice user. (In the beginning, everyone was a novice, weren't they?) No, that wasn't my question. I find this great file, MacCompress in comp.binaries.mac. So, I save it into a file on my Sun, edit out the header info, use Kermit to transfer it to my Mac, and run BinHex to convert from download to application. But, what I have now is a 'document' that when I attempt to execute, produces the old standard message about not finding the application necessary to open it. Now comes THE QUESTION. What step am I missing and/or doing wrong? Thanks in advance for any help. Chuck
steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) (07/25/89)
In article <7146@leadsv.UUCP> cberg@leadsv.LEADS.LMSC.COM.UUCP (Charles R Berg) writes:
#>Here's another question from a novice user. (In the beginning, everyone was
#>a novice, weren't they?)
#>
#>No, that wasn't my question.
#>
#>I find this great file, MacCompress in comp.binaries.mac. So, I save it into
#>a file on my Sun, edit out the header info, use Kermit to transfer it to my
#>Mac, and run BinHex to convert from download to application.
#>
#>But, what I have now is a 'document' that when I attempt to execute, produces
#>the old standard message about not finding the application necessary to open
#>it.
#>
#>Now comes THE QUESTION. What step am I missing and/or doing wrong?
#>
#>Thanks in advance for any help.
#>
#>Chuck
I'm still having the same problem. For example, I've downloaded
Macenvy from sumex into my Mac. I debinhex it with Stuffit 1.5.1,
which creates a StuffIt archive. The archive says there is a cdev
and documentation in it. I can extract the documentation and read
it. But when I extract the cdev, it doesn't function as a cdev
and acts just like a forlorn, forsaken document without an
application. I suppose I could learn to use ResEdit and fix
this, but isn't there an easier way?
Steve Goldfieldcooper@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM (Ken Cooper) (07/26/89)
/ hp-ses:comp.sys.mac / cberg@leadsv.UUCP (Charles R Berg) / 9:39 am Jul 24, 1989 /
>> Now comes THE QUESTION. What step am I missing and/or doing wrong?
Well, it may be that the downloaded file you get after de-binhexing
has a .SIT suffix. If this is so, you've now got a stuffit archive.
Stuffit is a PD (at least, the extraction portion is) package that
allows you to archive a group of files together, compressed. To
unstuff a file, you need to get a copy of stuffit, which I think is
available via anonymous ftp from sumex.stanford.edu.
Ken Cooper
Hewlett-Packard
Integrated Office Systems