Re: sit files

Fuzzy, et. al.

It's no fun, but you can do the old Trial-and-Error method of renaming the
unstuffed files with different extensions (or changing the extension
mappings in explorer).  I CONSTANTLY have to do this when getting art from
our outside artists, who use Macs.  At least I know the files are one of
only four or five formats.  If I had to choose from all possibilities.

Kathy, if you're going to deal with people on Macs, ask them to name their
file with the PC extensions, and buy a copy of MacDrive 98 or the like,
which will read Mac formatted disks.  It's a necessity.  Whatever you do, DO
NOT have them throw a PC formatted Zip disk in a drive and drag a bunch of
files onto it.  Not only will you have no idea what format the files are,
the names will be truncated to the 8.3 convention.

Good luck


-----Original Message-----
From: Captain F.M. O'Lary <ctfuzzy(at)obiwan.TerraNova.net>
To: Kathy <ksiddall(at)attcanada.net>; hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
<hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Date: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: sit files


>Kathy,
>
>Bottom line is: You can't.
>
>Even if you can get a PC version of 'stuff it' you *most likely* will not
>be able to open the files. MAC uses an _entirely_ different way of handling
>file associations (telling the machine: 'ok, this is a document, ok, this
>is an image, you use this for that and that for this'). Your PC MUST have a
>three (or four) letter extent ion appended to a file name (.DOC, .JPG,
>.xls) in order to recognize which application is required to deal with a
>given file.
>
>A MAC uses a gizmo called a 'resource fork', it actually a whole separate
>file!, to keep track of this information. Thus when you (usually) do manage
>to 'see' MAC files on your PC, the PC *still* has no idea how to deal with
>those particular files.
>
>I SINCERELY hope your files are an exception, but don't bet the farm on it.
>
>HTH,
>Fuzzy
>P.S. Wow. I just can't seem to stay on topic on this list! Sorry folks :-(
>
>At 12:22 PM 10/5/99 -0700, Kathy wrote:
>>After being sure I told a company I was on a PC they still send me images
in
>>sit format. How can I uncompress these for PC?
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