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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Self Extracting Stuffit? | Posted by: Hatta on 2009-05-04 20:48:47
Ok, here's the deal. I have a Mac Classic II I'd like to play around with. Problem is
I don't have a pc with a floppy drive, nor do I have any HD floppies.
What I do have is an Apple IIgs. I have the Apple IIgs hooked to my serial port, and
I can copy anything I need to it via Zmodem. I also have the IIgs networked to the
Mac Classic II via AppleTalk. So I can copy any file I need from the IIgs to the Mac
hard drive.
Anyway, I see all this great software on the internet, but it's all in a BinHex or
MacBinary. I don't have anything on the Mac that will extract it. What's worse
is that the application I need to extract these formats is distributed in these
formats. So I'm kind of stuck.
When I was getting started with my IIgs, I was able to find a self extracting
copy of Shinkit, the standard archiver for the Apple II. Is there any such
self extracting Stuffit that I could get on my Mac to get this thing started?
Oh, BTW, the mac is running System 7.0.1.
| Posted by: porter on 2009-05-04 21:44:38
A kind soul sending you a floppy would be the quickest solution.
| Posted by: Christopher on 2009-05-04 22:27:02
Usually what I do before I send certain apps to other computers without the right software to extract is, extract the file before sending it to that target computer.
| Posted by: Gil on 2009-05-05 06:56:42
I never understood why Stuffit Expander was, more often than not, distributed in the format that required and existing Stuffit installation to open it. xx(
| Posted by: Dog Cow on 2009-05-05 08:10:11
Self-extracting is nice if it's only passed around on Mac disks. Once you upload it to the Internet, download it, transfer it through a PC... things get pretty garbled. ResEdit will be able to reset its type to APPL, though.
I never understood why Stuffit Expander was, more often than not, distributed in the format that required and existing Stuffit installation to open it. xx( Same here, but I think it's typically in the self-extracting archive. Nowadays it is in a Mac OS X installer.
| Posted by: Hatta on 2009-05-05 08:34:12
Wow, I'm pretty amazed that there's not an easy solution for this. But anyway,
I was lucky enough to find a copy of ClarisWorks on the disk. I didn't expect
an office suite to have a terminal program, but it does. I was able to send
the stuffit.sea.bin over, and ClarisWorks automatically extracted the .sea
from the .bin. So I'm good to go!
Real strange that there's no complete diskless solution for getting software
from the net onto a virgin mac though. Someone needs to write a mac analog
to the amazing Apple II software ADTpro.
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