63a
From: jlm2r@Virginia.EDU (John Lawton Mobley)
Subject: Re: Stack-o-Dead
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1993 09:07:08 GMT

Dave Kassay x4048 g41  writes:
> I down loaded stack-o-dead and the golden road game from gdead.berkeley.edu.
> The first line in these .sit.hqx files say that they must be converted with
> BinHex 4.0. Does anyone out there know of this program, where I can ftp it, or
> any other info on converting these files so that I can use them on my mac?

You can download BinHex 4.0 from a number of sites. A few are
listed below. May I offer a couple of suggestions first about 
using Stack-o-Dead and ftp-ing? (Rhetorical question...)

1) Stack-o-Dead takes up many kB of space on your drive and, on
its sound files ("sound-bytes"? :^) )..., well, they jes gobble
up yer RAM space, but are fun nevetheless. When playing them or 
checking out the catalogue of set lists, make sure you're not
running other apps simutaneously (say, MS Word), or your sys.
will likely crash. 

2) Since you've already downloaded it, you'll first need to use
BinHex 4.0 AND THEN un-stuffit with a very useful program
called StuffIt Expander 3.0.1 (the current vers.). FTP these
from:
wuarchive.wustl.edu   /mirrors/info-mac/utils
mac.archive.umich.edu  or
sumex.aim.stanford.edu

For future ftp's, I HIGHLY recommend Fetch 2.1, a freeware FTP
program, downloadable from dartvax.dartmouth.edu . It can
convert files with .sit.hqx, etc., prefixes for you. NEAT-O!!!

Have fun! IKO, Mobs
.....John L. Mobley......jlm2r@Virginia.EDU.......
.

0