How do I install stuffit or another stuffit alternative? Help!

mscene,

Welcome to the discussions. Welcome also to the irony of needing stuffit to unstuff stuffit to install stuffit.

You will need to find some old install CD, even a demo copy of Kodak Photos CD or other multi-media demo disk that had an old version of Stuffit to unstuff the a newer version. Mac World also had bonus CDs that came with magazines and they had older copies of stuffit.

I will check my disks for a sample that is unstuffed and can be emailed. I remember only too well trying to update stuffit on my G3 and all the downloads were too new and would not unstuff.

Meanwhile, what computer are you using so we can be sure the version we find is the version you need?

Jim

The highest StuffIt Expander version for System 7.5 would be 5.5 ( you may want to look for it at ftp://ftp.allume.com/pub/archive/ ).

Mac application files on the Internet are encoded BinHex (.hqx) or MacBinary (.bin) for protection. Files may be in a merely compressed form (.sit), too. If you are using a PC for the download, do not decode/decompress until on a Mac. Once on the Mac, do not double-click on the file (instead, drag the .hqx/.bin/.sit originating from a PC onto the Stuffit Expander for Macintosh program icon).

As Jim also indicated, one of the difficulties involved is that something like StuffIt or StuffIt Expander is needed to decode a newer StuffIt Expander from the Internet. This is, of course, especially problematic when not even an older version of the utility is available. Strangely enough, the easiest way to solve this is sometimes via a PC. A file here, called MACDISK.EXE, can be downloded onto the PC. Next, prepare an empty PC-formatted 1.44 MB diskette via the FORMAT A: command in DOS or the "Full" formatting option under Windows. Run the MACDISK.EXE program on the PC. Follow the on-screen directions. The result will be a Mac-formatted floppy, including a ready-to-use StuffIt Expander 4.0.1 installer.

As far as the CD is concerned, try a plain CD-R instead. A disc from a PC in an ISO 9660 format should work. Make sure that the appropriate CD-ROM extension and the required helper files have been installed on the Mac.

Jan

Jan,

Thanx for the links. I also found stufit 4.0 and 4.0.1 installer on a Virtual PC CD. The 4.0.1 version is only 288k so it could be emailed if necessary.

Jim

I'm sure that I've got some old CD from MACMagazine-CD with versions of stuffit that fit on a disk(4.0.1,4.0.2) just like on MacDisk.exe