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From: neilg@fraser.sfu.ca (Neil K. Guy)
Subject: Re: Simulations
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Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 20:50:55 GMT
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jnoble@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au (Jason Noble) writes:

>Unfortunately, I have to confess that I am Mac-illiterate.  I've used
>StuffIt 1.5 to unBinHex the file mac.tads2exe.sit.hqx (or some such), but I
>can't seem to execute the result; it's just a document.  Can any Mac people
>give a very shame-faced DOS person a few tips?

 Don't be embarrassed! Every system has its quirks and idiosyncrasies! :)

 Once you have de-binhexed the file (that converts the 7-bit ASCII
file into a twin-fork binary form that the Mac can understand) you
need to uncompress it. The .hqx extension indicates a BinHex file; the
.sit extension indicates it was compressed with StuffIt, a popular
Macintosh compression utility.

 However it's also likely that the file was compressed using a more
recent version of StuffIt than 1.5.1, which is fairly old. Try to pick
up a copy of either StuffIt Expander (a free utility which can
decompress files in a variety of formats) or StuffIt Lite (a shareware
utility which can both compress and decompress files).

 Good luck!

 - Neil K.
