Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 11:40:12 -0500
>From: Kari Heber <kheber@verd.com>
>
>A few months ago I found a package on the old NewtonMad sight called Dell
>Crosswords. Assuming it was a crossword puzzle program, I downloaded it. At
>that time whenever I tried to install it to my MP2100, using NCU, I would
>get a message stating that it was an unrecognized pkg. I recently
>discovered the strip.exe program on Victor's Newton Cage site that fixes
>"corrupted" pkg files. This has worked well with other programs I had this
>problem with, but with the dellcros.pkg it strips it from 1.4M to 96k in
>size, and then when installed, will not run. So here are my questions:
>1. Is this package copyrighted, or is it freeware.
I don't know about its status. or whether it works compatibly on 2100.
>2. If it is freeware, do you think that Steve Wyer's PackType would fix it?
I think strip.exe on a PC should strip just few (~256?) bytes off the file
that represent the "MacBinary" header. (that might occur if someone
uploaded the file as MacBinary rather than straight binary).
PackType on a Mac just changes the type/creator codes, and doesn't affect
the length of the file.
I'm guessing you've got a PC since you said you've used strip.exe,
so PackType really wouldn't work/help.
>3. If the answer to #2 is yes, is there someone who would do so, and then
>distribute it as a .sit file?
another option is to try XWord Buddy from Tactile (http://www.tactile.com/)
Steve
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