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

  • From: "Andrew Pendleton" <celloandy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:28:53 -0800

I don't see why that wouldn't work (uncompressing it on a different
machine), but I've never actually done it.
Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen E. Bodnar" <sbodnar@xxxxxxx>
To: <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 5:16 PM
Subject: [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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