Re: more .sit help wanted

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

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)

Nathan Mates
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