TIDBITS DIGEST



TidBITS-digest is a news service about Apple and Macintosh computers
published as HyperCard stacks.

The files ending in .hqx are BinHex files and contain the stacks. They
can be downloaded as plain ASCII or TEXT files using zmodem, kermit,
whatever you usually use.

Download Instructions:

	1. These are Stuffit files in BinHex files, you will need
	both utilities on your Mac to properly unpack the stacks.

	If you need either they are on World in the

		/sources/macintosh/comm/

	directory.

	2. Each .hqx file has a mail header, you must remove this
	before attempting to unBinHex the file.

	If you get the alert box "No Checksum Error" then you forgot
	to remove the header. Remove it and try again.

	You can either remove the header after transferring,
	with a text editor on the Mac (emacs, qued, textedit, etc)
	or do it here, before downloading, with one of our text
	editors (emacs, vi, etc.) Just copy the file to your home
	directory if you want to edit it, for example:

		% cp tidbits-53.hqx ~		# that's tilde, your home
		% cd
		% emacs tidbits-53.hqx		# or whatever editor

	3. Unpacking the BinHex yields a .sit (stuffit) archive on
	your Mac. Launching that should put you in stuffit (or run
	unstuffit and open the .sit file.) Clicking the document in
	the stuffit window and choosing Extract (and Save) will put
	the HyperCard Stack on your disk.
	
The files ending in "_ix02" are indexes to the stacks, plain text
files you can look at for topics you might want to download and look
at.

	-yfnsm