Re: suit file

[Ben Wiley Sittler <bsittler@xxxxxxxxx>]

If it was packaged up correctly on the sending side (using BinHex,
probably) then the bits might still be intact. I believe fontforge can
read binhex'ed files even on non-Mac OS operating systems and from any
filesystem.

Good luck!
-Ben


On 2009-05-04, Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ben Wiley Sittler wrote:
>
>> It's a font "suitcase", and IIRC the font data is actually in
>> the "resource" fork. At least under Mac OS X, fontforge seems
>> to be able to deal with these. If you have the file on a
>> non-Mac OS machine it may well be corrupt, since non-Mac
>> filesystems do not preserve the resource fork data.
>
> This file was sent to me by a friend, from a Mac computer, by
> e-mail, and then saved on my ext3 HD. Any danger that it was
> corrupted, or incomplete?
>
> Regards, Jan
>
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