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How do you unarchive an HQX file?
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For some reason my OSX is recognising this .hqx installation file as a text mate file.
So how can I open an .HQX file?
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Clinically Insane
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Stuffit.
It's probably a classic app.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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BOMArchiveHelper can open it too.
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Vandelay Industries
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To decompress the file you only need the free stuffit expander from the above mentioned site and it’s OS X since 10.0 or earlier.
Opening it with BOMArchiveHelper is gzipping it for me here. That’s probably not what you want.
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Posting Junkie
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The Unarchiver
should do it too.
I no longer install StuffIt on client's machines (they went bloatware AGES ago), and UnArchiver appears to take care of everything that StuffIt did.
Between the Mac OS X's own de-archiving utility, UnRarX and Unarchiver, I have yet to come across something that won't work.
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Posting Junkie
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... other than the proprietary StuffIt files which are, unfortunately, still all over the Web.
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.sit files work fine with Unarchiver.
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Posting Junkie
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They're supposed to... but they often don't.
This is not surprising, because StuffIt is not just one format. They have changed the format many times over the years, so if you're reverse engineering it, it's pretty easy to miss some version or other.
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Posting Junkie
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Now I remember the other reason I disliked StuffIt.
I think I got annoyed pretty soon after Ray Lau sold it to Alladin.
Then that got sold to Allume.
Then that got sold to Smith Micro.
Every step, the download process got more annoying and the software uglier.
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Posting Junkie
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Yeah, I have to concur with that (with the exception that Aladdin was never "sold" to Allume - that was just a name change of the original company).
Did you know that Raymond Lau actually published the specifications to the original StuffIt format back in the day when he used to control it? You can probably still find the original spec if you search around on the Internet. Times have changed - it seems that after Smith Micro bought Allume, they applied for a patent on one aspect of the .sitx format, so I wouldn't expect to see any third party readers for that format anytime soon.
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Last edited by CharlesS; Aug 22, 2007 at 01:00 PM.
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