[HM] Zip, .sit, Stuffit = confusion!

[Jane Sprando]

Most of my friends are PC users, and half are on AOL. It doesn't matter what
kind of digital camera you have. What is important is how you SAVE the
files. Jpgs seem to be the most common to read, so I always save mine in
that format.

Don't stuff your files, such as using .sit. if I am going to stuff, I use
the .sea ----- self expanding. However, I learned here last week to ZIP the
file, not stuff it.  Aladdin's free Stufit comes with a Free zip utility,
DropZIp. That has seemed to solve my problems in sending pictures, both on
AOL and for other PC ISPs.

jane

> From: NeptuneMidheaven at aol.com
> Reply-To: "Home Macintosh Users List"<HomeMac at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:44:08 EST
> To: "Home Macintosh Users List" <HomeMac at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: [HM] Zip, .sit, Stuffit = confusion!
> 
> 
> In a message dated 2/27/2003 8:14:50 AM, HomeMac at lists.themacintoshguy.com
> writes:
> 
> << Okay here's what I dug up. AOL users need to use Aladdin Expander for
> 
>> Windows, I'm guessing that's who you are sending to. AOL won't
> 
>> automatically open attachments. So have them save them to a folder then
> 
>> use the program to unstuff them. Here is the link.
> 
>> 
> 
>> http://www.stuffit.com/expander/winindex.html
> 
>>>> 
> 
> Hi,
> I am having major confusion over just this kind of stuff.  I have a new PC
> with WinXP and would like to send pics from my digital camera (which only
> works with the MAC) over to my PC.
> I downloaded Stuffit Expander for Windows to the PC.  I thought it was free;
> however, after a month went by they wanted money to continue the right to use
> it.  In the meantime I think I had used it exactly once.
> Then I read elsewhere that the Expander was definitely free & 'here is the
> link'.  Well, I trashed the other version and have the "new" download on the
> PC but have not installed it yet.  Sigh, it looks just like the other version
> (7.0??) and I KNOW I'm going to have the same trouble with it after a month.
> How can they advertize something as totally free forever and then pull this
> garbage??
> I don't want the other things this program has, only the Expander.
> I also have a program, "Conversions Plus" which is apparently the PC
> equivalent of MacLinkPlus for the MAC.  It needs to have a compression
> program to make it work - it does not include Stuffit so you need to have a
> version on your machine.
> I don't  know if it would work with Winzip or not - all of this is new to me;
> this is my first PC.  I want eventually to move a lot of stuff from my older
> IMAC over to the PC.
> I haven't done much experimenting yet; I did try to sent a .sit file of
> pictures over to the PC via AOL email and it could not open it.  Individually
> yes, but not as a .sit file.
> --- Maybe I need a zip program for the MAC (to send files to the PC???)
> Will the above link take me to that??  At the moment I can't even get to the
> website to check...I think, though, this the above link is the same one I
> used to download what I already have on the PC.  Sigh, I would love to just
> stay with the MAC but in my circumstances its not possible.  I'm running OS
> 9.0.
> Any suggestions welcomed because I'm really confused here.
> Val
> 
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