At 04:30 10/23/2001, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote:
Hi, On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Erik van Roode wrote:> You probably have 'Stuffit Expander' on your Mac. Start it, and in the File> menu should be an 'Expand' menu item. Choose that one, and you'll be able > to select that 'Penguin 18.hqx' and expand it. Another source of trouble may be the download via Browser. Sometimes the browser doesn't realise that this is a binary file and downloads it by doing the ASCII conversion. The downloaded file is then corrupted.
Aren't .hqx text files like uuencoded files? http://www.matisse.net/files/formats.html.hqx BinHex 4.0 - Encodes a Macintosh file into 7-bit text so it can be safely transfered. Most Mac files appear in .hqx
Erik