[Duo2400] Re: Free software to expand an .smi file?

[Gregg Eshelman]

--- Art Rice <artrice66 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello Friends,
> I tried Stuffit Expander, but my version does not
> work
> with .smi files. My OS is 7.5.3 ver 2. Are there any
> other free/low cost utilities that will work?
> Thanks and Merry Christmas!
> Art

SMI files are Self Mounting Image files. If it's
a .bin or .hqx you first have to decode it. Stuffit
Expander can do that.

What are you trying to open, where did it come from
and did you download it on a Mac or PC? If the file
where you downloaded it didn't have a .bin or .hqx
extention, chances are it lost the resource fork.
If it did you'll never get an .smi open.

Far as I know, nobody has ever written a Disk Copy
image file repair utility to re-create lost resource
forks. If it's an .smi or a compressed .img, forget
it, it's kaput without the resource fork. There are
Linux and DOS and Windows utilities that can write
uncompressed Disk Copy images to floppies and CD-R.
RAWRITE works for floppy disk images and Nero Burning
ROM can burn bigger ones in standard HFS to CD.

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"You never have to repair or replace what you leave out of the design."
William "Bill" Powell Lear, inventor of the 8-Track tape and the Lear Jet.

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