compress for PC
I have seen these lists of mission bits used by the standard scenario in the addons page, but all of them were .sit files and I'm using Windows. Could anyone with a mac compress one of the files to be PC-friendly? I'd greatly appreciate it.
@dr-neverhood, on May 7 2006, 05:54 PM, said in Mission bits:
I have seen these lists of mission bits used by the standard scenario in the addons page, but all of them were .sit files and I'm using Windows. Could anyone with a mac compress one of the files to be PC-friendly? I'd greatly appreciate it.
No. We all hate you and wish you bad luck.
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Just kidding. Grab Stuffit (version 7.0, I think), and decompress it yourself. You don't need a mac user to go make something 'PC-friendly' every time you stumble across a .sit file. After all, most plug-ins use .sit. I know I'd sure be pissed if I got stuck turning every .sit'd plug-in you wanted to try into a Zipped archive.
Odd. I don't know anything worthy about compression but I always compress straight to zip files automatically. I don't have stuffit though, I don't think, and I doubt I'll get it due to the whole charging issue. Unless there's somewhere to download it without charge that's legal that I don't know about. I use a mac. Perhaps I'm just being stupid. I don't know.
Hmm... I was under the impression that .sit files could only be used by macs. My appologies.
This post has been edited by dr neverhood : 07 May 2006 - 08:21 PM
@lnsu, on May 7 2006, 07:19 PM, said in Mission bits:
stuffit expander is offered free with the trial version of stuffit standard. stuffit expander is free, its the compression apps that cost money.
Yes, I have stuffit expander.
@anaxagoras, on May 7 2006, 05:58 PM, said in Mission bits:
Just kidding. Grab Stuffit (version 7.0, I think)
I use 7.5. Can't say it works too well, but it gets the job done.
It might be worth noting that Mac text-based guides are occasionally written in some Mac-only file format (such as that used by Claris Works, or whatever it's called these days) or some other format which only has Mac carriage returns (leading to a solid block of unbroken text on the PC).
@anaxagoras, on May 8 2006, 10:58 AM, said in Mission bits:
Stuffit (version 7.0, I think
9.0
@darth_vader, on May 8 2006, 01:14 PM, said in Mission bits:
I use 7.5. Can't say it works too well, but it gets the job done.
9.0 is better, despite its little blind spot regarding .hqx archives. That, and I no longer offer support to those using 7.5. 
Claris Works is now called AppleWorks, but it's being phased out by Apple, to be (partly) replaced by iWork (Pages and Keynote). Indeed most of these text docs use a more or less Mac-centric format, but usually you can grab the info out of them by opening them with Wordpad (Notepad is the devil): it will interpret the Mac end-of-lines correctly, you may have to delete some formatting data but at least you'll be able to get the raw text. I have to do more or less the same thing (but on my Mac) each time I recieve a Word document from PC users who think everyone has Office...
