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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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