Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!iconsys!caeco!jose!pedro!pete_ashdown
From: pete_ashdown@pedro.UUCP (Pete Ashdown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Help with StuffIt header problems.
Keywords: StuffIt, DaynaFile, Amiga->Mac
Message-ID: <358@pedro.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jun 88 01:14:20 GMT
Organization: Bitsko's Bar & Grill, Public Access, Salt Lake City
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I have been having a problem with Raymond Lau's StuffIt.  I have tried 
everything I can think of, but I can not come up with a solution.  Here it is: 
  
I download a Mac program in SIT format from a local Mac BBS.  However, here is 
the catch.  I am downloading it on my Amiga.  I transfer the file to an IBM 
disk through a program on the Amiga known as Dos2Dos.  Then I take the IBM 
disk to my work where I transfer it to the Mac II via DaynaFile.  Surprise! 
Surprise!  StuffIt tells me that I have a bad header.  What I _think_ the 
problem is, is that when Mr. Mac uploads a program to the local BBS, he is 
using the Mac version of XModem.  Thus, if Mrs. Mac downloads it, her Mac 
terminal automatically recognizes the header on the file and interprets it to 
be a SIT! SIT! file.  However, Mr. Amiga (me) just downloads the whole thing 
and the header information gets attached.  Even if I change the filetype on 
the DaynaFile to SIT! SIT!, it still doesn't jive because it has that extra 
information on the beginning of the file. 
  
So you say, "Simple, edit off the beginning of the file."  HOW?  I used a text 
editor on the Mac and it still throws some header information onto the file. 
So I edited it on the Amiga and it _almost_ works, except for the fact that 
StuffIt thinks that the first file of the SIT is in there an infinite amount 
of times.  So obviously, I chopped off either too much or too little. 
  
Can ANYONE give me a simple solution to this dilemma?  Don't say, "Download 
the programs from the Mac II."  I CAN'T.  Besides, with a TrailBlazer on my 
Amiga, it makes downloading stuff I hardly use a lot easier.. 
  
Please mail me, I don't read this newsgroup too often. 
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