At 19:37 -0700 on 19/07/01, Sionnach Aisling wrote:
>Also, after using a PC for years, I can tell you what
>all of the file extensions are, but for Mac files...
>I'm at a loss. I figure the .hqx extension must be a
These are the only types of files you should be downloading; .sea, .sit,
and .bin files can get corrupted very easily by downloading onto a peecee.
BinHex is a method of taking a file and turning it all into 7-bit ASCII.
It doesn't actually compress at all.
>compressed file... what are .bin files? .sea files?
>.sit files?
.bin is MacBinary, which is a method of making the data and resource forks
appear as one file IIRC.
.sea files are self-extracting archives and require a properly translated
data and resource fork. Most peecee setups will drop off the resource fork
thus corrupting these files.
.sit files are like .sea files but not self-extracting. Think .zip files.
Very similar.
p
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