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Re: SIT files



>>>>> "Jesse" == g sightler <g.sightler@genie.geis.com> writes:

    Jesse> Cliff,
    >> The archives that we've had the hardest time figuring out are
    >> the AOL ones.  It appears that some AOL archives really are
    >> .SIT files and all you need to do is change the file type and
    >> creator to "SIT!" and run them through Stuffit Expander, but
    >> other just don't decompress that way.  We've asked AOL for some
    >> more information, but progress has been slow so far.
 
    Jesse> Yes, and when you do this you will ALWAYS get an error at
    Jesse> the beginning of the file, right?

Wrong.  If it really is a stuffit archive and it hasn't been damaged,
you should get no error message at all.

    Jesse> Have you tried using
    Jesse> CHOPHEAD (if I remember the filename properly) to do this?
    Jesse> Its a file in the AOL libraries that chops of the custom
    Jesse> AOL header so that you can use MAC .sit archives with the
    Jesse> IBM version of Stuffit Expander.

We didn't use chophead on the file that was really a stuffit archive
and the other file we tested wasn't a stuffit archive at all, so
chophead wouldn't have helped in the least.

    Jesse> It may also be a good
    Jesse> idea to search the IBM libraries for Stuffit information,
    Jesse> because if I remember correctly there was a discussion
    Jesse> about this a while back because the IBM version of Stuffit
    Jesse> also had problems with AOL files (it won't even recognize
    Jesse> them as .SIT archives).

Maybe.  I'm not the one handling the AOL stuff, but I have looked at a
few files and I think the best thing would just be for someone at AOL
to explain what the various formats are that they use.

	--Cliff



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