Re: Mac hqx and sea files...

Mark Coniglio (troika@util.panix.com)
Thu, 18 Jul 1996 12:01:23 -0400

>Since my memory is flaky, I had to consult someone else:
>
>.sea is a binary; a .hqx is a cross-platform file.
>.sea files are self-extracting on a Mac; .hqx requires some
>sort of unpacker (which can be gotten off the net).
>
.hqx (also known as a BinHex file) is a binary file that has been encoded
so that it uses only valid ASCII characters (i.e., hex 00 to hex 7F)

.sea is a macintosh specific, compressed binary, self extracting file.
These files are usually created with a program called StuffIt or its cousin
DropStuff. When you get a .sea file, you can just double click on the file
to unstuff its contents

.sit is macintosh specific, compressed binary file. Again, these files are
usually created with a program called StuffIt or its cousin DropStuff. The
analog in the PC world would be a .zip file. (though these formats are
incompatible.)

Often you will see the combination

filename.sea.hqx

This means you need to use a BinHex decoder (like StuffIt Expander) to
convert the file. You end up with

filename.sea

which is a Macintosh double clickable application. If you run filename.sea
you then finally end up with

filename

or whatever the contents of the archive are.

Hope this all helps.

-- Mark

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