uncompress software for Color Classic? (7.6.1)

[mraroid]

Paralel...

Wow!  Thanks so much!  I was able to down load this to my G4 powerbook (Leopard). I have never used Toast before.  I noodled around with Toast, and not knowing if I did it correctly or not, burned a disk with the above file.

I was quite surprised that my CC could read ther CD and import the file.  It has all worked out quite well.  I have been un stuffing programs like crazy!

Now that I have Toast version 5.X.X working on my powerbook, I think I will look for a version of toast that will run under 7.6.1 on the CC.

Is Toast 3.5.7 the last version of Toast I can run on my CC?

Thanks again for your help!

jack

Ibarra Ecuador

 

[BadGoldEagle]

I am using Compact Pro on my SE/30. It has a nice feature called "auto-extractible image" that creates an image that does not require any software to extract it. No Disk Copy required.

I have Compact Pro and Stuffit on my SheepShaver machine and a Unix folder on OSX (enables you to transfer files between OS9 and OSX).

I simply drag and drop the file on Stuffit expander on SheepShaver, and then I create an auto-extractible image using Compact Pro. 

You can see the file on your OSX computer through the Unix folder (if you save the Compact Pro image on Unix that is)

Then it's just a matter of transferring your new Compact Pro image to a floppy and then onto your Color Classic. (I'm assuming you know how to do that, but if you don't I can tell you how)

That's my method, and it may not be the best one but it works. 

The Toast method is also good.

 

[olePigeon]

DiskCopy 6.3 can also make self-extracting images.

 

[mraroid]

I will look around for Compact Pro.  Thanks for the tip.  It took so long to uncompress my files, that I am going to stock up on tools to do so. 

jacj

 

[Paralel]

Glad to hear it worked out. The last version that would work on 7.6.1 on a CC is probably 4.1.3

 

[mraroid]

Now that I have the proper tools on my color classic, I have tried to un compress some files.  I was successful with one fine only.  It is a very early copy of Adobe reader. 
 
The other files I try to uncompress come out really bad.  The "read me" and text files un compress just fine.  But the rest are empty files with nothing in them.  When I click on the files, I receive a message that says something to the effect "The software that created this file can not be found".
 
This happens on almost all the files I try to uncompress.  However I am having a different problem with some other, larger files.
 
I down loaded several compressed files that are from the Berkley Macintosh Users Group.  They are maybe 350 MBs or so each.  Each file is a CD image I believe.  My Color Classic II will start to uncompress them.  It might get as far as 1/4 of the way.  Then the Color Classic will stall out and freeze.  Sometimes I have mouse movement, and sometimes not.
 
I thought it might be a hard drive size issue or a memory issue.  I have several partitions that are 1.9GBs large.  I am running a SanDisk CF card for a hard drive.  Before I try to uncompress the larger files, I reboot.  I have 37MBs of memory in my Color Classic II.
 
I did move the files over to the CC before i had installed Toast on my powerbook.  Perhaps I should again burn a CD on my powerbook using Toast this time?  I still have the compressed packages on the power book...
 
Thoughts?
 
jack