sea files
The problem is that i'm unable to expand a .SEA file on my system. It doesn't get open on my laptop. So, can any body tell me that how can i open .SEA files on my laptop? Can any body provide me the correct solution for doing so?
The problem is that i'm unable to expand a .SEA file on my system. It doesn't get open on my laptop. So, can any body tell me that how can i open .SEA files on my laptop? Can any body provide me the correct solution for doing so?
As has already been pointed out, that's an old self-extracting archive. It's actually a complete application, capable of expanding the data that has been compressed inside the archive. However, the .sea format has not been used in quite a long time, and the chances that whatever is in there is usable now is very, very low. Most often, .sea files were used for distributing applications, but if the .sea application doesn't run on your computer (as I would expect it not to), then the application inside it won't either.
If it has old data instead of an application, you may be able to use it (depending on what kind of data, and whether there is an application capable of reading it now), in which case Stuffit Expander will be the tool you'll need to crack the archive, as Tony has already said.
.sea is a self extracting archive. If you double click it, it will run a program to extract the contents. If that file is an older file, you will be out of luck running Lion, since the code very well might be a Classic program, that requires Rosetta.
leonieDF wrote:
.sea is a self extracting archive. If you double click it, it will run a program to extract the contents. If that file is an older file, you will be out of luck running Lion, since the code very well might be a Classic program, that requires Rosetta.
True, but the free Stuffit Expander is Univrsal and should extract the file.
True, but the free Stuffit Expander is Univrsal and should extract the file.
But can it interpret PowerPC code, without Rosetta available? I hope you are right 🙂, but then it would need to emulate PowerPC code on its own. I found only StuffIt DeLuxe claiming to be able to extract .sea on Lion.
There should be no need to ' interpret PowerPC code', Stuffit Expander should bypass the extraction code that's in the .sea file and just extract the data. (I have not tried this, just assuming what should happen (based on my experience with PKZip's self-extractor from my PC DOS days)).
Unless something has changed since the "old days" when I used to use Stuffit Expander and .sea archives, you are absolutely correct, Tony. The application code in the .sea is irrelevant, as it was always just a minimal stub of Stuffit code. Stuffit Expander should be able to extract a .sea file.
Thank you both for the clarification, Tony and Thomas.
Léonie
sea files