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- From: bowman@reed.edu (BoBolicious)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Think-C-Printer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.225627.4806@reed.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 22:56:27 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1993Jan12.225627.4806
- References: <babb-120193123621@larc.sdsu.edu> <12JAN199315513715@zeus.tamu.edu>
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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- In article <12JAN199315513715@zeus.tamu.edu> flc3527@zeus.tamu.edu (CAMPBELL, FRED LELAND) writes:
- >In article <babb-120193123621@larc.sdsu.edu>, babb@sciences.sdsu.edu (J. Babb) writes...
- >>Hi Y'all (gearing up for the next 4 years :-) ),
- >>Using Fetch (Automatic, Text, and Binary modes) I downloaded
- >>think-c-printer-11.hqx from sumex. Then using BinHex 5.0 (with & without
- >>Text Filter) and the BinHex embedded in MacMH, I unbinhexed it, got a
- >>think-c-printer-11.sit GENERIC icon document (No C-Clamp icon !!)
- >>And Stuffit gags on it. Well, actually it doesn't even see it.
-
- >You probably have a StuffIt Deluxe archive. You'll find the file type is 'SIT!'
- >and the creator is 'SITD'. You need to download StuffIt Expander, a free
- >utility from Aladdin. StuffIt Expander debinhexes, uncompresses all flavors of
- >StuffIt archives (Classic, Lite, Deluxe), and uncompresses Compact Pro archives.
- >You can find StuffIt Expander in the /util directory (I think) at sumex.
-
- Throw BinHex 5 in the bit-bucket. Nobody uses it, it's a dog. Everybody use
- BinHex 4, which StuffIt Expander can deal with.
-
- Also, you can set Fetch to automatically debinhex & unstuff Stuffit Classic
- archives, as well as pass anything it can't handle over to StuffIt Expander
- using Apple Events.
-
- cheers,
- bobo In seeking the unattainable,
- bowman@reed.edu simplicity only gets in the way.
- "On Monday, numbers floated everywhere, and the world was full of
- approximations." -- Spencer Heinz, _The Oregonian_, 1/5/93z
-