Emax

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:02:46PM -0000, David Mattock wrote:
> I have just purchased a used Mac and have downloaded the SIT files of 
> Alchemy 3.0, Sound Designer II and Turbosynth.  I used my PC to 
> download the files.  I used a PC version of stuffit to expand the files 
> and put them on a PC floppy.  I put the PC floppy in the MAC and it 
> reads the files as PC files and won't open them.
> 
> Unfortunatley I have never used a MAC before and have no clue what I'm 
> doing.  I have ordered an older copy of Mac for Dummies that relates to 
> the older OS 7.5 the MAC has but any help in the meantime would be 
> great.
> 
> Thanks,
> Madtux

You should get the MacOS version of the free Stuffit Expander, and
expand the .sit files _after_ transferring them to the mac.

If you unpack the .sit archives on a PC, the Mac-typical "resource fork"
is lost during unpacking. (MacOS uses a dual representation of files --
a so called "data" fork and a "resource" fork. During packing with
stuffit, the file is reduced to a single data fork to ease transferring
via foreing systems.)

A Stuffit Expander for MacOS 7.5.x is hopefully still available from
http://www.aladdin.com/ -- if not, I'm sure I can find one for you.

Peter
-- 
the tasty machine that goes "ping" ate the big can of spam


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