dewhirst@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (04/17/91)
In article <mferrare.671781222@adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au>, mferrare@physics.adelaide.edu.au (Mark Ferraretto) writes: > When I use stuffit1.5.1 to unpack binhex files it stuffs up saying unexpected > EOF. Any ideas? > > -- > _ Name : Mark Ferraretto Title: Computing Officer > \ \ Place : Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics > || \ \ University of Adelaide > ==========>==>==-- Aarnet: mferrare@physics.adelaide.edu.au Two possibilities come to mind: - you didn't get all of the archive and you decoding only the first half or so. I have run into files via FTP that are like this. You download the file to find that it is only part of it. - there is some screwy text at the beginning or the end of the binhex file (such as someone's ten-page signature or disclaimer about bugs) that is messing up the decoder. Good binhex decoders will ignore everything before the statement: (This file must be converted with Binhex 4.0) and everything after the statement: end. I have had problems with sit classic telling me the file is corrupt or in an unrecognized format when I try to decode a binhex file without removing the extraneous text. Also, a would guess that it is not actually and EOF error, but SIT! just says that because it is stupid. I have had best success with the real Binhex 4.0 utility. -- Rob Dewhirst Sysop: The MacRocosm BBS - (913) 841-9446 < --Best route AOL:Echopapa <-- Okay route FAX 9138652639 <-- So so route dewhirst@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu <-- Yuck! "A computer without a modem is like a sportscar without wheels -- it's fun to sit behind, but it won't take you anywhere!"