Stuffit Expander in .SEA Format??

ChaldoPimp · #1 February 1st, 2005, 05:13 PM

Ok. First, I am running an ancient operating system (System 7.5.3) Actually, I'm running it under an emulator. I am stuck in a vicious chicken and egg cycle, where I need stuffit expander to open .sit files that I download, but when I download stuffit expander, IT IS ALSO IN .SIT format. Catch 22. A very frustrating one too, because I cannot find a .sea format anywhere on the world wide web, which is pretty big.

I know it exists, because I found it about a year ago when I installed Basilisk on my other computer. Most likely I need version 5.5. Any help is appreciated.

-Chaldean

brianleahy · #2 February 1st, 2005, 06:04 PM

Well, if it's in .sea format (not .sit) then it's a Self Extracting Archive -- that is, it should be an executable program which will extract Stuffit when double-clicked.

Of course, it has to be a system 7 compatible executable, which might be tricky.

Incidentally ---- an emulator? Do you mean the Classic environment?

Not Pear PC surely?

SAbsar · #3 February 2nd, 2005, 12:22 PM

Well Im sorry to burst your bubble, but you can't expand .sea files from what you're using. I dont think .sea files are compatible with your OS version (I think you need at least 8.5). Sorry buddy. Why dont you try PearPC, as brian suggested, with a newer version of mac os? or take a dip and switch?

ChaldoPimp · #4 February 2nd, 2005, 05:10 PM

Hmm. SAbsar.. you have a point. And a very valid one at that. I did manage to find a .sea version of stuffit, but to no avail, as my OS did not recognize it. But I have done this before in the past, I just forgot how. Any other ideas?

brianleahy · #5 February 2nd, 2005, 05:25 PM

Do a "Get Info" on the file and see if OS 7 even knows it's an application.

If not, you can change it with ResEdit or something similar

ChaldoPimp · #6 February 2nd, 2005, 06:31 PM

Hmm.. I didn't think of that Brian.. good idea. Sadly, I can't open the file in resedit, because in order to download resedit, I would need to unstuff it, which leads us back to point A in this evil circle.

http://img16.exs.cx/img16/2427/stupidstuffit7zh.jpg

brianleahy · #7 February 2nd, 2005, 08:37 PM

Well, if your OS installation has Applescript editor, you could change the file's creator type that way...

I don't know if your emulator allows you to move files between windows & Mac OS, but you could also probably unzip the .sea file with a Windows version of stuffit expander, then move it back --- though you might once again have the creator type issue.

SAbsar · #8 February 3rd, 2005, 06:05 AM

yeah, brian, there IS a way to move files back and forth via an emulator. Chaldo (im just gonna shrink this to CP now

), if you're using Basilik II, then you could enable the SHOW 'MY COMPUTER' option in the preferences. If you're using some other emulator, then you should use HFVExplorer to do the same.

(btw, i also dont think that you have an Applescript editor, coz you most probably downloaded the free 7.5.3 from Apples website, right?)