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Artifice, Inc. Where Do You Get Un-Stuffit Capabilities?
The Stuffit decompressing and decoding capability is built in to the America Online browser, so if you're using AOL, you probably don't need to do anything else -- other than polish your patience for AOL's really slow Internet performance.
For Netscape users, the "unStuff-it" capability can be easily provided by the widely-used helper application Stuffit Expander from Alladin Systems, the original makers of the Stuff-It line of file compression products.
Once you have downloaded 'Stuffit Expander" (now available for both Macintosh and Windows) for the first time, you'll need to configure both your browser application and 'Stuffit Expander' itself to automatically decode the ".sit" files you download.
Configuring Your Web Browser for Stuff-It Expanding
To configure Netscape Navigator on Macintosh, for instance, use the Options menu, General Preferences command, and click on the Helpers tab. In the list of file types, locate the Mime Type'Application
/x-stuffit', and click to select that line of the list. Then click the Browse... button and locate the (previously downloaded) Stuffit Expander application on your hard drive. Now, when you download DesignWorkshop Lite, Netscape will automatically open Stuff-It Expander to decode them for you. But before trying to download again, you should also configure Stuff-It Expander.
Configuring Stuff-It Expander
To configure Stuffit Expander for Macintosh, double-click on its application icon to start it up, then use the File menu Preferences... command to open the Prefences window, and then click on the Expansion icon in the space on the left side to go to the Expansions Preferences area. Two particular options in the Expansion area should be checked on for convenient downloading, Expand Archives (for automatically handling ".sit" files) and Expand Encoded Files (for automatically handling ".hqx files). These settings will enable Stuffit Expander to completely decode the DesignWorkshop preview applications in either of the formats we provide.
Now you can quit Stuffit Expander, return to Netscape, and download the DesignWorkshop Lite applications. As soon as they have been completely downloaded, Stuffit Expander should start automatically and decode the files appropriately. After Netscape and Stuffit Expander have each finished their part of this process, you can just double-click on the DesignWorkshop Preview package, and the self-extracting archive will complete the last stage of decompression all by itself, and then quit. Now you can check out your new stuff!
Simple Downloading Test Files
If you're having trouble succssfully downloading files, try downloading these examples. If these self-extracting archives get to your computer and fully decompress successfully so you can view the jpeg image file, then your browser is probably configured properly, and problems you might have with large downloads are unfortunately most likely due to general network overloads.
If on the other hand you can't successfully download and decompress the test files, then you probably have some kind of sneaky set-up problem. If you go through these instructions again and can't get it to work, please contact Artifice Techincal Support and we'll do our best to help you be successful with DesignWorkshop downloading.
Downloading Test File One -- An architectural JPEG Image, compressed as a DiskDoubler Self-Extracting Archive, encoded as a ".sit" raw data archive for Internet transmission.Downloading Test File Two -- Alternative Format -- An architectural JPEG Image, compressed as a DiskDoubler Self-Extracting Archive, encoded as a ".hqx" text data archive for Internet transmission.
(Special thanks to Misako Yamaguchi for allowing us to share her excellent DesignWorkshop projects, including the Japanese Room image rendered with Radiance which we're using here.)
On The Server Side...
This is not something that a typical user should need to think about for normal downloading, but it is worth noting that the web server to which you are connecting should have the following MIME data types defined, as follows:
application/x-stuffit sit
application/mac-binhex40 hqx
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