On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Eric L. Strobel wrote:
> It is still a self-extracting archive, but somehow in the transfer it's lost
> the type/creator info that tells the Finder what it is. Hence the generic
> icon. When you drag/drop onto Stuffit Expander, Stuffit doesn't give a flip
> what the type/creator is, it just looks at the actual file data and expands
> it. The alternative is to use any number of utilities to set the
> type/creator info, but doing the drag & drop is going to be much quicker.
Actually, I was under the impression that most SEA archives actually have
resource forks, not just type/creator info. That file is dead for all
intents and purposes. If someone with a Mac could binhex that file and
upload it to UNNA, I would greatly appreciate it...
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