Re: Help with MAC files on PC

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From: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 00:00

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Larry Stoter <LPS@teknesis.demon.co.uk> wrote:

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> You might need to set the file type and creator directly yourself to get
> StuffIt to recognise the files once you have chopped them around. There
> are several utilities around that allow you to do this - ResEdit for
> example.

No need to do this: Stuffit Expander 4.5 doesn't care; Stuffit itself is
useless these days.

> There is also a Windows version of StuffIt now available. If you install
> this, your PC might learn to recognize the files as attachments.

It might then automatically decode them, which would often be
disasterous.

Rowland.

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