Re: hey Simon et al

[see_sig_for_valid_email@no.spam (Simon Williams)]

Laine Houghton <laine@intergate.com> wrote:

> Simon I know you are a mac user. Please tell me what the hell to use  on a
> '.sea.bin'  file.
> 
> I downloaded the file from Apple's web site.
> The mac tells me it is a bad text file.
> 
> I used stuffit on the windows machine but it chokes on the file.
> 
> The -oh so easy to use-  mac is yanking my chain.
> 
> Laine...

What system are you running? I've found Stuffit 5.5 will open just about
anything and works with System 7.5 (maybe earlier) up to 9.2.2. OSX
seems to have some weird ideas about file types... I've had it try to
open .sit.bin files with Toast (which wasn't very effective). 
I've also noticed that if I download files on the OSX bubble and
AppleShare them over to my System 7.5.5 LC475, they occasionally turn
into generic documents and I have to open them from inside Stuffit
rather than double clicking on them.
I think Stuffit lost backward compatibility at some point, so it might
be a good idea to try an older version before giving up entirely.
Did you download to the PC or Mac? It seems to me that most Mac browsers
will un-bin a download like that by default (but I may be wrong).

Check www.jagshouse.com for just about every version of Stuffit up to
1.x to 5.5 and probably some more accurate information than I have... If
you don't feel like wading through the whole site, you can ftp from
there too (ftp.jagshouse.com/pub/)

BTW, Macs are apparently "easy to use" only if you've never used another
OS... I've got friends who can strip a PC to bits and rebuild it
blind-folded, but can't seem to get a handle on the Mac's "weird"
desktop... though I have similar problems with Windows -- I'm sure it's
designed for lefties ;-)

-simon
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