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Incompatibility issues ??? please h
Name: sanriver12 Date: January 14, 2003 at 06:11:09 Pacific OS: win xp CPU/Ram: p 4 1500 mhz
Comment:
I use a PC and have a HP cd writer. I need to record a couple of .sit files for use in a Mac that i downloaded from the internet, I've never opened them and have no program associated in my PC If I burn those files onto a cd will my friend be able to read and expand them in his Mac or are there any incompatibility issues ???? thanks
Name: ChrisP Date: January 14, 2003 at 08:41:29 Pacific
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I don't ~think~ that the .sit format has a resource fork, though I might be wrong. If I'm right, there are not going to be any compatibility problems. Macs will read IBM formatted CDs, hard drives, and floppy drives just fine.
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Name: the pickle Date: January 14, 2003 at 17:10:03 Pacific
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You're right. .sit and .bin files are fully cross-platform-compatible, as are .hqx files. The ones to watch out for are the .smi and .sea files, both of which require some sort of encoding to avoid losing their resource forks on a PC.
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