Self Extracting Stuffit?

[Hatta]

Ok, here's the deal. I have a Mac Classic II I'd like to play around with. Problem is

I don't have a pc with a floppy drive, nor do I have any HD floppies.

What I do have is an Apple IIgs. I have the Apple IIgs hooked to my serial port, and

I can copy anything I need to it via Zmodem. I also have the IIgs networked to the

Mac Classic II via AppleTalk. So I can copy any file I need from the IIgs to the Mac

hard drive.

Anyway, I see all this great software on the internet, but it's all in a BinHex or

MacBinary. I don't have anything on the Mac that will extract it. What's worse

is that the application I need to extract these formats is distributed in these

formats. So I'm kind of stuck.

When I was getting started with my IIgs, I was able to find a self extracting

copy of Shinkit, the standard archiver for the Apple II. Is there any such

self extracting Stuffit that I could get on my Mac to get this thing started?

Oh, BTW, the mac is running System 7.0.1.

 

[porter]

A kind soul sending you a floppy would be the quickest solution.

 

[Christopher]

Usually what I do before I send certain apps to other computers without the right software to extract is, extract the file before sending it to that target computer.

 

[Gil]

I never understood why Stuffit Expander was, more often than not, distributed in the format that required and existing Stuffit installation to open it. xx(

 

[Dog Cow]

Self-extracting is nice if it's only passed around on Mac disks. Once you upload it to the Internet, download it, transfer it through a PC... things get pretty garbled. ResEdit will be able to reset its type to APPL, though.

I never understood why Stuffit Expander was, more often than not, distributed in the format that required and existing Stuffit installation to open it. xx(

Same here, but I think it's typically in the self-extracting archive. Nowadays it is in a Mac OS X installer.

 

[Hatta]

Wow, I'm pretty amazed that there's not an easy solution for this. But anyway,

I was lucky enough to find a copy of ClarisWorks on the disk. I didn't expect

an office suite to have a terminal program, but it does. I was able to send

the stuffit.sea.bin over, and ClarisWorks automatically extracted the .sea

from the .bin. So I'm good to go!

Real strange that there's no complete diskless solution for getting software

from the net onto a virgin mac though. Someone needs to write a mac analog

to the amazing Apple II software ADTpro.