On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>
> On 27/02/02 09:17, "Victor Rehorst" <victor_at_newtontalk.net> wrote:
>
> > 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...
>
> Victor,
>
> You should be able to do that, don't you have a "virtual" Mac?
'cept I don't have the original file with its resource fork intact.
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