equant
Well-known member
I have been trying to get software from macintoshgarden and macrepository to run on basiliskII and a powerbook. Here's a diagram showing the paths that the files take...
macintoshgarden.com -> linux box -> BasiliskII
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-> Ymodem transfer -> Powerbook running System 7.1
Anything I DL that is .sea.bin works fine on the powerbook and in BasiliskII. However, I have troubles with *.sit files (which is the majority of the files on these sites). I have several version of stuffit on both BasiliskII and the powerbook that don't uncompress the the downloaded *.sit files. I _have_ found that Stuffit Expander 5.5 on BasiliskII seems to handle things that don't otherwise work. However, Stuffit Expander 5.5 won't run on system 7.1.
I guess my question is this... Is the problem that the *.sit files are corrupted when I DL them to my linux box (and Stuffit Expander 5.5 knows how to deal with this corruption) or is it that the files on these sites are really compressed in a way that is not easily compatible with System 7.1 and earlier versions of Stuffit Expander?
As a note, there have been some *.sit.hqx and *.sit.bin files that haven't worked for me... so while stuffit 3.something on my powerbook recognizes and decodes the .hqx files, it doesn't handle the resulting .sit file. It seems odd to me that all of the stuffit version are compress with *.sit and are not *.sea.bin.... How are people supposed to get started if they don't have stuffit?
Thanks!
macintoshgarden.com -> linux box -> BasiliskII
|
-> Ymodem transfer -> Powerbook running System 7.1
Anything I DL that is .sea.bin works fine on the powerbook and in BasiliskII. However, I have troubles with *.sit files (which is the majority of the files on these sites). I have several version of stuffit on both BasiliskII and the powerbook that don't uncompress the the downloaded *.sit files. I _have_ found that Stuffit Expander 5.5 on BasiliskII seems to handle things that don't otherwise work. However, Stuffit Expander 5.5 won't run on system 7.1.
I guess my question is this... Is the problem that the *.sit files are corrupted when I DL them to my linux box (and Stuffit Expander 5.5 knows how to deal with this corruption) or is it that the files on these sites are really compressed in a way that is not easily compatible with System 7.1 and earlier versions of Stuffit Expander?
As a note, there have been some *.sit.hqx and *.sit.bin files that haven't worked for me... so while stuffit 3.something on my powerbook recognizes and decodes the .hqx files, it doesn't handle the resulting .sit file. It seems odd to me that all of the stuffit version are compress with *.sit and are not *.sea.bin.... How are people supposed to get started if they don't have stuffit?
Thanks!