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- From: gilmore@venice.sedd.trw.com (Larry Gilmore)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Help wanted on .sit.hqx
- Summary: hqx text files
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.185906.16263@venice.sedd.trw.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 18:59:06 GMT
- Article-I.D.: venice.1992Aug14.185906.16263
- References: <berthiau.713751973@iros1> <14AUG199213511969@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Carson, CA
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- In article <14AUG199213511969@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov> kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Susan E. Kayser NSSDC/STX (301)513-1673) writes:
- >In article <berthiau.713751973@iros1>, berthiau@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Andre Berthiaume) writes...
- >>
- >> I want to download some .sit.hqx programs from a UNIX machine. Problem is, I
- >>only have access to Term 20, a pretty basic communication program. It's asking
- >>what the type and creator of the downloaded file are, and I have NO idea
- >
- >By the time downloaded files get to my Mac, they are text documents. I suggest
- >that you use the type and creator of TeachText or your word processor. For
- >TeachText, the type is TEXT and the creator is ttxt (case sensitive).
- >
- >Susan Kayser NCF::KAYSER or kayser%nssdca.span@star.stanford.edu
- >Hughes/STX at NASA/GSFC/NSSDC
- >Greenbelt, MD
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- What works best for me is the generic text ids:
- type TEXT creator MACA (all caps)
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