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Re: *Help* unpacking BinHex files posted to comp.binaries.mac

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From: Anton Rang
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1988 17:32
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Since there seem to be several of these, I'm posting this.  Apologies
to those "in the know".

  If you've downloaded files (particularly from comp.binaries.mac),
and un-BinHex them, and they turn out to be un-identifiable documents,
check the file type.  There's a good chance that it's 'SIT!'.  If so,
you need UnStuffIt or StuffIt to unarchive the files.  Another
possibility is 'PIT ' (or something like that), in which case it is a
PackIt archive.  You can use either PackIt or StuffIt to unarchive a
PackIt file (at least, as far as I know).
  For users with access to ARPAnet, StuffIt and UnStuffIt (as well as
most other comp.binaries.mac submissions) are available with anonymous
FTP from 'sumex-aim.stanford.edu', in the directory 'PS:<info-mac>'.
There may be other archive sites, but I don't know of any.  I believe
the current versions are UnStuffIt 1.5, and StuffIt 1.5.1.
  I don't know where users without ARPAnet access can get it.  Does
anyone have them out there for anonymous UUCP, maybe?

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| Anton Rang (grad student) | "UNIX: Just Say No!"   | "Do worry...be SAD!" |
| Michigan State University | rang@cpswh.cps.msu.edu |                      |
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From: rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: *Help* unpacking BinHex files posted to comp.binaries.mac
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Date: 26 Oct 88 17:32:55 GMT
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