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- From: dowling@hubcap.clemson.edu (william a dowling)
- Subject: Re: Extracting SEA's
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.194627.6035@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Organization: Clemson University
- References: <37050@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 19:46:27 GMT
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- ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Steven Cobb) writes:
-
- >I realize this is a fairly basic question but I FTP'd a .SEA file
- >but get info tells me it's a document. How do I change a document
- >to an aplication such that it can self extract?
-
- >Thanks,
- >Steve
-
- It say's it's a document because it is. Mac files can not be transfered over
- data lines because of the two diffrent forks(data and resource). You must
- encode them into text in order to transfer them. This is almost always done
- by hqxing a file (hexidecimal encoding). You need to decode the file, that
- will restore it to a ses file. Binhqx was made for this, but compactor pro,
- stuffit and any compression tool that's any good will do this. My favorite
- is dehqx because ti does 'batch' dehqxing.
-
- If you've already done this *thwap* to me for assuming and *thwap* to you
- for not being more spceific.
-
-
- --
- My submissions are not necessarily thoes of my employer, but the ought to be.
- Drew Dowling CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
- dowling@hubcap.clemson.edu SC 69
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