Re: Broken copy of FEdit on MacMothership.com

Thanks for the heads up! I have replaced the FEdit on The Mothership with a working copy.
Sorry for the inconvenience!

Best Regards,
Jim
www.macmothership.com

On Aug 17, 9:31 am, Ray Arachelian <r..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
> Andreas_210 wrote:
> > That´s the site where I´ve FEdit downloaded, before.
> > This archieve seems to be defect. Both, Stuffit for Windows and Mac
> > reports an error unstuffing it.
> > The grenerated file doesn´t work.
>
> ...
>
> On 16 Aug., 02:26, Ray Arachelian <r..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
>
> > > You can find FEdit here:http://www.macmothership.com/lisacontent/util_lisa.html
>
> The FEdit on MacMothership claims to be encoded with BinHex, however,
> downloading it with wget shows that it is actually a StuffIt file.
> That said, I suspect the file on MacMothership is corrupted, because
> even after renaming it to FEdit_3.0.sit, StuffIt Expander reported an
> error, so that file is corrupt.
>
> I've found another copy here, and was able to extract it without
> errors. Note that these are actually encoded with BinHex, which your
> copy of StuffIt Expander should be able to deal with.
>
> http://www.repairyourmac.com/lisa/software/Mac_utils/
>
> In terms of Binhex, this web page has modern binhex and MacBin
> extraction tools, but idiotically, they're encoded with Binhex! When
> you make tools that extract encoded files, it's really a very bad idea
> to encode them with the same compressor/packer.... but anyway, enough
> ranting. :-)
>
> http://www.ziggy.speedhost.com/bdfreex.html (I've not tried any of
> these btw, just googled around for modern BinHex tools, so YMMV.)
>
> I've bcc'ed this message to the folks that run the Mac Mothership, so
> that the broken file can be fixed.

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