move a 1479 kB .sea file from win XP to Macintosh Classic

[juanjavier]

I have got this file in my Window$ XP machine:

CubaseScore68k2.0r10.sea (1479kb), which was obtained upon expanding the original one, CubaseScore68k20r10.sea.hqx.

The file is accessible here

http://personales.ya.com/juanjavier_xxx/CubaseScore68k2.0r10.sea

Now I do not know how to tranfer it to the mac in order to get it extracted.

Any idea about it? Regards.

 

[LCGuy]

You'll want to download it again from wherever you first got it from. A .sea file is a self-extractable file, actually an application of sorts, meaning that it has a Macintosh resource fork, like any other application. The problem with this is that PCs destroy Macintosh resource forks, making the file useless. You'll have to transfer the original .hqx file over to the Classic and decompress it on there.

The easiest way you'll be able to do it is via a floppy disk. You could make a segmented zip archive, put the segments on different floppies, and then use a Zip extractor such as ZipIt to extract it on your Classic, if you have one.

Do you have any other old Macs, perferably one with both an ethernet port and a LocalTalk port, or a external CD-ROM drive for your Classic?

 

[juanjavier]

You'll want to download it again from wherever you first got it from.

--That's no problem at all. I still have the original .sea.hqx file.

You'll have to transfer the original .hqx file over to the Classic and decompress it on there.

--That is what is this all about.

The easiest way you'll be able to do it is via a floppy disk. You could make a segmented zip archive, put the segments on different floppies, and then use a Zip extractor such as ZipIt to extract it on your Classic, if you have one.

---But the Classic won't ever read a Window$ pc-formatted floppy with a .zip segment of nothing. :-/ If I make a segmented .zip archive and put the segment in different floppies (seems easy), as soon as I put the first floppy onto the Mac, it will claim saying «This is not a Macintosh disk. Do you want to initialize it?»

Do you have any other old Macs, perferably one with both an ethernet port and a LocalTalk port, or a external CD-ROM drive for your Classic?

---No, I don't. So the question is still there: How do I transfer the segments to the Mac? I suppose that by means of .img binary image files, one per each segment and floppy. But...how do I create .img binary images?

Help is always appreciated. Meanwhile I have been googling for «.img binary creating files» and the like, but to date nothing useful is found :'( :'(

 

[gavo]

---But the Classic won't ever read a Window$ pc-formatted floppy with a .zip segment of nothing. :-/ If I make a segmented .zip archive and put the segment in different floppies (seems easy), as soon as I put the first floppy onto the Mac, it will claim saying «This is not a Macintosh disk. Do you want to initialize it?»

Is the destination Mac a Mac Classic or something else? Doesnt a Mac classic have a "Super Drive" that is capable of reading MSDOS formatted 1.44MB floppies? If so, then I think you need the "Apple File Exchange" application (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_File_Exchange) which once run up will recgonise the MSDOS formatted disk and let you copy files from it to your Mac's hard drive (and for things like zip files will perform no translation just do a copy).

Cheers,