How the heck do I install Stuffit?

[EvilCapitalist]

The ones I've got on my "Tech" drive (just an external SCSI drive with a bunch of partitions) are:

- Stuffit

- Norton Utilities

- FWB CDROM Toolkit

- FWB Hard Disk Toolkit

- LaCie Silverlining (similar to above)

- Apple HD SC Setup (patched to work with non-Apple HDs)

- Drive Setup

- Two different versions of Disk First Aid (one that plays nicely with SCSI, another that plays nicely with IDE)

- SCSI Probe

- Apple Personal Diagnostics

- ResEdit

- Disk Copy 4.2

- Disk Copy 6.3

These are running under a universal System 7.5.3 installation, though I've got System 6 and System 7.1 on other partitions of the drive as well.  All of these either came on machines I had purchased or I have the actual disks for them (or both).  In a pinch you should be able to get most, if not all of the above from Macintosh Garden.

edit: forgot about a few other utilities!

 

[EvieSigma]

I could definitely use some of those, yeah...I have an external SCSI HD that I'm just waiting on cables for and I plan on loading it up with software and both a System 6 and System 7.1 partition.

 

[Unknown_K]

Stuffit utilities (to make and unstuff files).

Toast and external CDR drives

Lido for formatting HD for old systems

Diskcopy (for 800k and 1.44MB disk images)

ZIP utilities for ZIP drives

HD Toolkit

Anubus for RAID or other removable drives (MO for one).

Retrospect for backup to tape.

 

[EvieSigma]

I have Toast on a few machines but I definitely should put it on more, good suggestion.

Also, what does it mean when a .sit won't expand? One of the three I wanted to make a floppy of just won't expand and I don't know why. It's Speedometer 3.23.

 

[Unknown_K]

There are a few versions of Stuffit that are not compatible with others for some reason.

Could be an incomplete or damaged file.

 

[EvieSigma]

I got it from Mac Repository, the only place I could find it...Mac Garden has a floppy with Speedometer 4.0 as part of it, but I wanted an older version.

I'm hoping that soon I'll have a better solution to getting software onto my Macs with 800k floppy drives than spending a bunch of money on disks, whether it's a hard drive solution or BMOW's floppy emulator.

 

[CelGen]

From OS 8 onwards Apple bundled a copy of Netscape and it comes with a very primitive copy of Stuffit Expander.

Assuming you have one of the above install CD's I'd throw it in my drive and drag the files off the disc, or localtalk move them from another machine running system 8 or later.

Failing all that, pray to god has the damn stuffit installer as a.smi Self-Mounting Image.

Also once you get a working version of Stuffit, strip it down until it fits on a floppy disk, label it, set the write protect tab and never run into this again.

 

[tendim]

There are a few versions of Stuffit that are not compatible with others for some reason.

Could be an incomplete or damaged file.

I had adventures with Stuffit, documented here:  https://tendim.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/adventures-with-stuffit/.  It looks like Aladdin made changes to the compression algorithms, which were not backwards compatible with older versions of Stuffit.  Ultimately you need to work forwards with different versions incrementally, until you get one that handles "all" archives.