I want to put Stuffit Deluxe 5.5.1 on my Performa 6116 running 7.6.1, as it's my beige floppy making machine. What I want to know is...how the heck do I install it? The downloads I find are .sit archives, which require Stuffit to be opened, so how do I install Stuffit when I need Stuffit to open the installers? I don't really want to open the archives on a Windows machine and risk breaking them.
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How the heck do I install Stuffit?
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You can only screw up a mac file if you have a fat16 or fat32 drive (removes resource fork). Anything with NTFS will not harm the files.
Anyway:
http://download.system7today.com/stuffit55.hqx
Anyway:
http://download.system7today.com/stuffit55.hqx
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Hi itsvince725,
Some thoughts:
1. Magazine CDs like Mac Format or MacAddict tend to have them;
2. Do you have a FW card in your Performa 6116? Not an option if it's a NuBus machine though;
3. Hook up the P6116 and the PB G4 to a hub or with a crossover ethernet cable and copy the files across that way.
4. Invest in an Adaptec PC-card SCSI card and a SCSI zip-drive for future sneakernet emergencies.
HTH,
aa
Some thoughts:
1. Magazine CDs like Mac Format or MacAddict tend to have them;
2. Do you have a FW card in your Performa 6116? Not an option if it's a NuBus machine though;
3. Hook up the P6116 and the PB G4 to a hub or with a crossover ethernet cable and copy the files across that way.
4. Invest in an Adaptec PC-card SCSI card and a SCSI zip-drive for future sneakernet emergencies.
HTH,
aa
According to everymac.com, your machine should have built-in ethernet. Appletalk would probably be your best bet.
You shouldn't need crossover cables... do you have a router? you should be able to connect both of them to the network wired and find each other over appletalk that way.
I made a Macintosh floppy disk with StuffIt Expander 3.5.1 on it, then "dd"ed the floppy onto my Linux box. Hopefully you should be able use this floppy disk image to put on a disk, and then you can use this StuffIt Expander to "bootstrap" your StuffIt Deluxe.
I'm fairly certain there is an equivalent to dd for windows. If you do it from a Mac OS X machine, that should have dd as well. Let me know if you need help.
I'm fairly certain there is an equivalent to dd for windows. If you do it from a Mac OS X machine, that should have dd as well. Let me know if you need help.
I found this "Mac Secrets" CD from 1996 on the Garden that has a crapload of software on it, including Stuffit Expander 4.5. So now I can finally open .sit archives and make some software floppies with them! Of course, I still have to get the software over to the 6116 to be unstuffed, but at least I'll be able to do it.
Alas I may need a new USB floppy drive...mine is making awful noises and it wasn't wanting to read my disks.
Alas I may need a new USB floppy drive...mine is making awful noises and it wasn't wanting to read my disks.
SCSI zip drives or burning CDROM disks is the easiest way to get files from a newer machine to an older one if you don't have a working Ethernet network.
Pretty much the only reason I bothered to get a x86 Mac (iMac) was because it makes it easier to support the older systems with decent internet access.
If you are going to have a decent size hardware collection I would suggest you stock up on legit software utilities to support them (not that expensive).
Pretty much the only reason I bothered to get a x86 Mac (iMac) was because it makes it easier to support the older systems with decent internet access.
If you are going to have a decent size hardware collection I would suggest you stock up on legit software utilities to support them (not that expensive).
