No. If you try to decode anything on that PC you will mess up the data forks
so it cannot be read on the Mac. You leave the file as is on the PC. Put it
straight to a floppy. Take that PC floppy to the Mac. The Mac will ask you
what program you want to use to decode it. there will be a list. Hopefully
the list will contain Stuffit Deluxe or Stuffit Expander (a free program to
expand files). You choose that one. If you do not  have Stuffit Expander
then you need to get Stuffit Expander first (preferably as a .sea file not a
.hqx or .sit. then it can expand itself, because .sea is a
self-expanding-archive.

As an aisde, I think you mentioned in another one of your posts that the
file was 3.5 MB. that won't fit on a floppy. The max size on a floppy is
1.44MB.
Donna Pointer-- iMac, ergo iAm




> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (PowerBooks)
> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 04:33:32 -0400
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (PowerBooks)
> Subject: PowerBooks Digest #824
> 
> Re: Compress file
> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> At 07:05 PM 4/21/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>> the file is for a mac to install stuffit that is my problem....
> 
> You said you're trying to get it from a PC? You'll need to either follow
> the directions on Aladdin's site about using a browser to decode the HQX,
> or use something like HFV Explorer to decode it while copying it to the
> floppy.
> 
> Scott Holder
> 


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