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shaktiman
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1226 Posts |
 Posted - 28 May 2002 : 01:52:35
I have visited the "older software downloads" section on Apple's website, but dont have a clue what to do because I dont want Claris emailer update as I dont even have Claris emailer & I am not sure what version would work on my Apple Mac Quadra 840 av even if I were to download any of the links, and then will stuffit expander do any thing? I doubt it the most pathetic piece of software I have come accross for a good while, and are then other archiver/dearchiver softwares? and will they do lzh? or arc?shaktiman |
~Coxy
Leader, Tactical Ops Unit
Australia
2822 Posts |
Posted - 28 May 2002 : 03:04:42
http://mac.org/internet/emailer/Downloading "Drop Stuff with Expander Enhancer" will allow you to expand more file types - but I've never heard of the ones that you mentioned... it is THE BEST compression/expansion software for the Mac. BTW - Google is your friend.  ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
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shaktiman
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1226 Posts |
Posted - 28 May 2002 : 04:41:31
The link is good, I am pleased:-) I was beggining to think that the mac world would be impossible to make heads or tails of, this link is very very akin to UTSI the ultimate tos software index, where most downloads will work with Magic!Claris email isnt working though....... it just keeps saying that the connection times out. shaktiman |
scchicago
Full Member
USA
936 Posts |
Posted - 28 May 2002 : 12:40:48
LZH and ARC are dos file extentions.
I only know if DOS and maybe some Windows sapplications to extract them. WinZip outta handle these types of files. I haven't seen them used in a while. They may have been used on Macintosh too, but I believe that they were primarily used on DOS._________________
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shaktiman
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1226 Posts |
Posted - 28 May 2002 : 13:20:34
What I know about archives...........bin, sit, hqx are all mac lzh is very cross platform but no I havnt seen it with mac software but it is very very good. arc hmmmm started on pc but ST's very happy with it zip the most common archive format pc st apple zoo an amiga format st's can handle this msa, dsk, st most usually disk images then we get into graphic archiving hahahahahahahahahaha.............
lzw huffman bachman turner overdrive not alf
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scchicago
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USA
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Posted - 28 May 2002 : 14:04:12
LZH files are very common on Amigas aren't they?You have more knowledge in this area than I do. _________________
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oldmacman
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USA
713 Posts |
Posted - 30 May 2002 : 14:26:15
Mac files have two forks, resource and data. The actual contents of the file are stored in the data fork. The icon, type and creator, executable code, images, and sounds of the program are stored in the resource fork. PC and UNIX filesystems have only one fork, so when a Mac file is copied to Windoze or UNIX, it loses its resource fork. This causes many problems. When a Mac file is stored on a UNIX webserver, it must be compressed, or it will not retain its resource fork. LZH and ARC are not used for Mac files because they do not provide for the resource fork. Mac files are encoded with Stuffit, BinHex, or MacBinary to fit both forks into the single PC fork. You can use LZH and ARC to compress an already encoded Mac file, but you cannot compress a Mac program with a PC compression algorithm and expect it to work.Macs Liberated:
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