Re: more .sit help wanted

[madsci@tribeca.ios.com (Erick Dietrich)]

In article <5035u3$71l@darla.visi.com>, nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:

> In article <50320g$oo8@monet.ICSI.Net>, A Smith <ostman@wombat> wrote:
> >Okay, I downloaded a font encoded with binhex, and used un-encoded it,
> >which gave me a file with a .sit suffix. I put this on a HFS disk, put it
> >on a mac, but the unstuffit program doesn't show it as a stuffit file. Am
> >I missing something here?
> 
>    Yes. The macintosh has additional filetype info which I don't
> believe GSCII+ NDA properly writes out. Thus, the mac is not seeing it
> as a stuffit file. Unpack the binhex file on the mac where it'll
> properly do the filetype stuff, change the filetype to match that of a
> stuffit file, or see if there is a way to get the unstuffer to let you
> see all files so you can select it.
> 
>    Deal with mac crud on macs; that's the only _reliable_ way to get
> them to handle everything correctly. Other computer systems are far
> more fault tolerant with regards to filetypes. (Most of which don't
> really have them, so they don't care half as much)

Not so much reliable as easy, Nathan.

You should be able tojust drag and drop the file onto the Stuffit
Expander.  If not, try opening it from inside Stuffit by using the Open
command in the file menu.  If all else fails, use ResEdit or Snitch to
change the type to SITD and the creator to SIT!.

-Erick