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Re: To take arms against a .SEA of troubles



In article <960709023622_233685118@emout07.mail.aol.com>
Link8452@aol.com writes:

> << Can Executor (or the supplied Stuffit expander) extract a .sea
>  archive?  I'm an Executor-NS user and know bupkes about the
>  various Mac archive formats; I'm assuming that .sea stands for
>  "self-extracting archive", so I had hoped I could just click on
>  the thing in the browser...but it turns out that just opens up
>  Tex-Edit and lets me see the unreadable contents.  Am I screwed? >>

To the original author: How did you get the file into Executor?  If you
ever had the .sea file on a PC drive and the file had no other
extension (.sea.hqx or .sea.bin) then most likely you've lost the
self-extracting code (which is in the original file's resource fork).
 
> The new version of Stuffit Expander is a lot better at guessing what type of
> file it is that you want to decompress.  I think it is especially geared for
> files that have been downloaded on to a PC and then transferred to a Mac.
>  Just find the new version on the Internet, use the old Stuffit Expander to
> decode/decompress it. I believe the new version is 4.0.1.

I think Expander will only decompress .sea files made by StuffIt.  I
don't believe it will handle Compact Pro .sea files and it definitely
will not decode DiskDoubler .seas.


-Eric Bennett (ericb@pobox.com)

"Saying Windows 95 is the same as a Macintosh is like finding a potato
that looks like Jesus Christ and saying you've seen the Second Coming."
-Guy Kawasaki


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