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- From: csc_hector@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu (Mactoes)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: .sit suffix sites for mac
- Date: 18 Dec 1992 15:06 CDT
- Organization: University of Houston-Downtown
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- In article <1992Dec17.210655.23058@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, tsandeson@mta.ca writes...
- >
- > Hello:
- >
- >
- > I seem to have run into a problem, There are anonymous FTP sites out there
- >for the mac that contain files such as...... bubba.sit.....now I know this
- >is a mac file but every time I download any file with just sit as the
- >suffix it will not open, it just kicks me off my retieval program. Why is
- >this happening? any mac program with.....bubba.sit.hqx works O.K. but files
- >with just .sit screw up majorly........HELP HELP HELP
- >
- Have tried changing from ASCII to BINARY as the FILE TYPE?
- >
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- Hector Rodriguez - Computer Hardware Specialist (Mactoes, a mac appendage)
- University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, Texas USA
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