At 2:40 AM -0600 5/2/05, mailbox 1 wrote:
I realize that in my last message concerning this topic, i did not
furnish enough information so; so here goes :
...
- the only files i have actually been able to decode have been .hqx files
-every .sit not contained in a .hqx container seems to be corrupted
If I recall correctly, only the modern (OS X era, .sitx) stuffit
archive files are flat, datafork-only files; the older ones have
stuff in the resource fork. This is one of the reasons for binhex
(.hqx) format in the first place, it eliminates the need for a
resource fork (or equivalent, e.g., dot-underscore file or invisible
Resource folder within each folder, etc).
-my browser (firefox 1.0) sometimes parses .hqx files into plaintext
-binhex has no problem decoding these when saved as .txt files
Correct. BinHex is Binary represented as Hexadecimal and hex is
just row after row of ASCII text.
-is a browser or extension that will parse .hqx files into plaintext
available?
In most browsers you can right-click the link and save the link to disk.
-if a .hqx file is a text file, would it be possible to to fix it
just by formating it correctly in a text editor?
No formatting should be necessary, since it would be a raw ASCII file
with hard returns. I've had files emailed to me with the body of
each email being a chunk of the BinHex; I'd save the emails to disk,
glue them all together in a text editor (BBEdit), save the
concacenated thing as a new text file, and drop it onto Stuffit
Expander: zing, there's the file.
-is there any way to get .sit files downloaded on a pc to unstuff?
Some PC FTP programs may be smart enough to download Mac files that
have resouce forks as .bin files. I don't know about browsers.
If you can run Basilisk II on your PC, you can install iCab (a 68K
Mac browser that is still being developed and is therefore decently
compatible with the modern web) and download Mac .sit files from
within Basilisk, BinHex them, and then transfer the .hqx file to
the Zip disk. Basilisk itself is free, and so is MacOS 7.5.x which
runs on it, but you'd need a Mac ROM file which is a bit trickier.
Technically officially, you need to own an old Quadra or Mac II
series box and obtain your own machine's ROM -- they're copyrighted
and you can't sell them and aren't supposed to give them away, etc.
They're, umm, around, though. I have a couple myself.
-or is the solution just to purchase third party software, such as macopener?
thank you very much,
Lorsen Long
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