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

  • From: "Andrew Pendleton" <celloandy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:54:57 -0800

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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