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- From: callan@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Joel E Callan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: Re: What format are the stacks on sumex-aim.stanford.edu in?
- Date: 17 Dec 1992 13:03:12 GMT
- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- References: <1992Dec17.084212.5454@cs.uoregon.edu>
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- Originator: callan@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
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- From article <1992Dec17.084212.5454@cs.uoregon.edu>, by chundhau@pragmatix.cs.uoregon.edu (Christopher David Hundhausen):
- > I'm new to FTP land, and I recently logged on to sumex-aim.stanford.edu in
- > hopes of downloading rinaldi-externals-20.hqx. I tried choosing MacBinary
- > format, and then doing a "get rinaldi-externals-20.hqx", but it told me
- > that the file was not in MacBinary format. I changed the format to straight
- > binary, and successfully loaded a 600+ K "document" onto my Mac hardrive.
- > Unfortunately, I couldn't figure what to do with this monster. Was this
- > supposed to be a Hypercard stack? Am I supposed to know what to do with it?
- > What did I do wrong?
- >
- The .hqx means that the file is in a binhex format (4.0) and you need
- something like downline or Stuffit Lite 3.0 to dehqx the file. You should
- dehex and then the file should be in some format like .sit or .cpt or .sea
- (I forget which format).
-
- Piece of cake.
- --
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