How to break down big sit archives

[ioncehadamac]

Happy new year!

I am dealing with a bit of an issue here: got both a 520 and a 1400; and I am using the 1400 to make floppy for my SE HD and the 520.

The problem is with big archives: the sit file is 4 MB, it won't fit on a floppy, so while I can use the PCMCIA-CF adapter to move the files on the 1400; then I am stuck because I can't bring the files on the SE nor on the 520.

IS there a way to break sit files in 1.4 MB pieces? so I can use few floppy to carry over the file, and re-join once on the SE and on the 520.

Also, how the heck do you get diskcopy or diskdup to install? I did get both of them on macintoshgarden, and when I try to open them on the 1400, I get an error and they don't open. I have got various apps that are not in sit format, but in image files, so I can't mount them nor transfer them

 

[Cory5412]

Stuffit Deluxe (I always go for 5.5, works fine from 7.1 to 9.2.1 in my testing) can split archive files. You'll need a similarly new-ish version of Expander. (Again, I go for 5.5.)

Open Stuffit Deluxe, then go to the Translate menu and choose Segmenting. It'll save the segmented files. You can choose a folder, pick what size you want them to be, and choose 800k or 1400k per your preference.

 

[maceffects]

Cory is right, that's your best bet unless you want to try transferring the files by AppleTalk which is slow, but always works.

 

[Cory5412]

I missed that, and appletalk is how I transfer files between my 180 and 1400. It is probably going to be much faster, because stuffit was never particularly fast on literally anything.

If you've ever wanted to watch for literally a day while a 100-meg file decompresses, you've come to the right place.

One other idea that may help make things smoother:

If you have Ethernet on the 520 set up with tcp/ip access to an AFP server over IP, then you can use the 1400 as an AFP server over appletalk/localtalk, and then you can use the 520 to copy files from one server to the other. It'll take a while, but if you have a big IDE disk in the 1400, or a big CF card, it may be worth looking at.

My situation was kind of weird, too, because my 180 has all the right stuffit software (well, until i was able to transfer it to the 1400, I eventually canceled that day-long unstuff operation and did the good thing on my blue-and-white G3, and then copied the file to the 1400, either with CF or with the network, I forgot which.

Anyway, stuffit will split files, but it's a much faster overall process just to move them with a serial cable or with IR if the 520 has that.

Depending on what OS your 1400 is running:

If you have like a G3/G4 running OS 9 (or a pretty early version of OS X) then you can also use a USB CF card reader to write files for the 1400.

On 7.6.1 at least (I have a 1400c/166 and that's what's on the original media) you can use HFS but not fat/fat32 volumes. 8.1+ should give you more flexibility to use HFS+ or perhaps even DOS volumes with a PC or Mac. The trouble is, if you put most Mac files on a FAT32 volume, they'll lose their resource fork and perhaps not unstuff correctly. If you know what type they are, a tool like filetyper may be able to restore functionality. There's also a particular encoding, binhex IIRC, that used to be popular for distribution via the Internet, because FTP didn't always treat Mac files well and if they landed on a hotline server running, say, on someone's Windows 95/98 box, they'd lose the resource fork there.

So that's where my 1400 and I are.

 

[ioncehadamac]

Thanks for the replies

I will check MG to find a suitable version of stuffit; I think I have 3.x, which if I recall, was the greatest you can put on System 7.

So far, the issue is not much to put files on the 1400; since I use a CF card via PCMCIA (it run on system , but to move files to the 520

Sadly I have neither network nor appletalk on either, so I can only use floppy disks. I was planning to remove the HD and transfer files from my mac pro, but the 520 use SCSI drives, not IDE, so I can't connect the drive without an adapter (which cost more than the computer itself LOL).

Not planning to put too many programs on it; but now that I know how to break them down, I can try to get the files on floppies and start from there Thanks!

 

[Cory5412]

Stuffit Deluxe 5.5 works on 7.6.1 and should work on 7.1 (and probably 7.0) but may not have drag and drop or certain other features.

It's worth getting a serial cable to use for localtalk networking. Basically look for something like this: www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-Branded-Mini-DIN-8-Pin-Male-to-Mini-DIN-8-Pin-Male-Serial-Cable-6-/222352488454 -- there are cheaper ones available too.

Then, in the appletalk control panel on each machine, select the correct serial port. On (probably) the 1400, open file sharing, set a machine name, user name, and password, click start, then on the client machine (SE/520) go to chooser and select the 1400, enter un/pw, and your mounted disks will show up.