burning HFS CD for old mac

[madcow]

Here's the situation. I downloaded many files with .SIT extension on my Linux box. I want to burn make a CD of these files so I can tranfer them to my old Macs without losing the file type. If i just burn normally, the mac won't recognize the creator for the files and StuffitExpander won't even decompress the files. The question is how to create a HFS CD that preserves the file creator properties so that I can use my linux to download mac software and burn them to CD so I can use them on my macs?

 

[equill]

Versions of Toast for use with 68k Macs up to OS 8.0 knew no format but HFS. When time and Toast moved on to the Newer World of HFS+ (OS 8.1 and up) for 040 and 60x Macs, the choice was offered between HFS (default) and HFS+. Toast for OS X still offers the choice (up to Toast 6 for sure), and HFS is still desirable for CDs to be read in any Mac running OS 9 or lower. Low burn speeds may also be necessary for some of the Ancient Macs.

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[madcow]

Versions of Toast for use with 68k Macs up to OS 8.0 knew no format but HFS. When time and Toast moved on to the Newer World of HFS+ (OS 8.1 and up) for 040 and 60x Macs, the choice was offered between HFS (default) and HFS+. Toast for OS X still offers the choice (up to Toast 6 for sure), and HFS is still desirable for CDs to be read in any Mac running OS 9 or lower. Low burn speeds may also be necessary for some of the Ancient Macs.
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Thanks for the reply.

I guess I will just have to use ResEdit to change type-creator properties of those files after I transfered them to a mac.

 

[madcow]

This should solve the problem:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58098