[juneau-lug] Re: Stephen, a question about that PowerPC

I'm only familiar with the older ones. The PowerComputing machine 
that Nels has comes with MacOS 7.6; I had MacOS 8.1 on there and I 
believe it will run up to 9 - but they aren't free.

Do you need Stuffit just to install BootX or is it used to decompress 
the kernel on boot like LiLO does with a bzipped kernel? In other 
words, could you uncompress it on a newer machine with a newer 
Stuffit, burn it on a CD, and load it on the hard drive?

Stephen

>I found that BootX only functioned when decompressed with a current version
>of StuffIt.  I remember having to upgrade the one that was on the machine I
>was working with in order to get it to function.
>Andrew
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Stephen E. Bodnar" <sbodnar@xxxxxxx>
>To: <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 7:07 PM
>Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: Stephen, a question about that PowerPC
>
>
>  > .hqx is binhex - it's a method of turning a binary file into an ASCII
>  > for sending over networks - you can't really call it compression
>  > because the binhex files are bigger than the binaries they were
>  > created from. .sit is a stuffit archive. This was the standard way to
>  > encode Mac files for download.
>  >
>  > Unencoding these is a bit tricky. The easiest way is to get Stuffit
>  > Expander of the appropriate vintage to run on 7.6. I'm pretty sure it
>  > is Expander v. 4 but it might be 3. The swatting flies with nuclear
>  > weapons method is to find a Netscape install of the same vintage and
>  > there is an option for just installing Stuffit. This is still
>  > available I believe at ftp.netscape.com. Expander will do the
>  > unbinhex too.
>  >
>
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