gleicher@duke.cs.duke.edu (Michael Gleicher) (01/12/88)
Help !?!?! My father lent me his Compuserve account so I could download some stuff for my Mac ][. I have been able to XMODEM accross a .sit file (I can't get Kermit to work), but it comes accross as a text document so StuffIT ignores it! What is the right way of using/sending these files ?? Thanks, Mike Michael Lee Gleicher (-: If it looks like I'm wandering Duke University (-: around like I'm lost . . . E-Mail: gleicher@cs.duke.edu)(or uucp (-: Or P.O.B. 5899 D.S., Durham, NC 27706 (-: It's because I am!
edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu (01/13/88)
In article <10915@duke.cs.duke.edu> gleicher@duke.cs.duke.edu (Michael Gleicher) writes: >Help !?!?! > >My father lent me his Compuserve account so I could download some stuff >for my Mac ][. > >I have been able to XMODEM accross a .sit file (I can't get Kermit to work), >but it comes accross as a text document so StuffIT ignores it! > >What is the right way of using/sending these files ?? I use CompuServe regularly on my Mac II, and I used to use XMODEM all the time (I use CompuServe B protocol now, which is considerably faster). Anyways, it sounds like your terminal emulator is set for plain XMODEM transfer, instead of MacBinary XMODEM transfer. You will need to setup your emulator to the MacBinary XMODEM setting if it has it. Otherwise you will need BinHex5 to convert the MacBinary file you get to the real .SIT file. Edward Moy Workstation Software Support University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 edmoy@violet.Berkeley.EDU ucbvax!violet!edmoy
espen@well.UUCP (Peter Espen) (01/13/88)
In article <10915@duke.cs.duke.edu>, gleicher@duke.cs.duke.edu (Michael Gleicher) writes: > Help !?!?! > > My father lent me his Compuserve account so I could download some stuff > for my Mac ][. > > I have been able to XMODEM accross a .sit file (I can't get Kermit to work), > but it comes accross as a text document so StuffIT ignores it! > > What is the right way of using/sending these files ?? > > Thanks, > > Mike > > Michael Lee Gleicher (-: If it looks like I'm wandering > Duke University (-: around like I'm lost . . . > E-Mail: gleicher@cs.duke.edu)(or uucp (-: > Or P.O.B. 5899 D.S., Durham, NC 27706 (-: It's because I am! The file (like most on Compuserve and other Mac BBSs) is probably in "MacBinary" format. Alot of the Mac Communications programs do the MacBinary decoding as the file is being downloaded. In your case, this conversion was not done -- therfor you ended up with a TEXT file. Either the MacBinary conversion was disabled on your Communications program, or it does not have that feature. There is a program for the Mac called BINHEX that will convert a downloaded MacBinary file. If you run this on your dowloaded file, you will then get a StuffIT file that StuffIT will recognize. Peter Espen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .