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- >Hiya alls - i've dl's (ok, ftp'd :) a couple of files off of
- >the net to try to use with executor. For somee of these, I
- >need to use the binHex4.0 converter in Compact pro, in others,
- >I need to use the binHex5.0 that's included with exectutor.
- >Occasionally, I'll get a file that I would de hex with binHex
- >4.0, and I would get a .sit file - however, unstuffit refuses
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- >to see this file! Any ideas here? Perhaps I should try to
- >use binHex 5.0 on the file? (though, if 5.0 doesn't like the
- >file - it hangs the emulator). BTW - this is executor running
- >under linux (I'm still stuck in demo mode - since i can't
- >register till next week sometime - would that be part of the
- >problem?).
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- I don't completely follow what the problem is here, but here is some
- data that may or may not be relevant: Some programs that can process
- binhex files are very sensitive to line ending characters. The binhex
- 4.0 file format may be a 'text only' format, but some get upset if they
- find line-feeds or carriage-return-line-feeds at the end of the data
- lines. They only want carriage-returns. thus, if you ftp the files as
- text only files to, say, a unix or dos box, and then try to run them
- through some of these converters, you'll get CRC errors or other
- ailments.
- Binhex 5.0's format is, of course, a binary one, so one should never try
- to transfer it as anything but.
- Another thing to do is make sure the binhex 4.0 file looks like a
- reasonable binhex file. As I recall, every line is the same length, and
- the first starts with a colon and the last (which may be incomplete)
- ends with a colon. Most things I've seen that deal with binhex files
- don't care what comes before that first line with a colon (so long as
- none of those lines start with a colon, themselves)
- As for Stuffit not recognizing the file, does this mean that it doesn't
- show up in its 'open file' dialog'? or it shows up, you open it, and it
- reports an error then? This is an important distinction. If the former
- is the problem, it sounds like the 'creator' and 'type' of the file are
- not set properly. If you're using the de-binhex-ifyer in compactor,
- does it put up any info about what type and creator it is creating in
- the new file? I know the binhex 4 app does, and it's a useful sanity
- check, but I am not familiar with thecompactor one.
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- I hope this doesn't confuse things more than they are.
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- david john
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