On Jan 28, 2010, at 11:13 AM, deadwinter wrote:

> Hi folks:
> 
> As I mentioned before, I have a Beige G3 Desktop I've been playing
> with.  In order to get a couple of things installed on the OS9
> partition, I apparently need Stuffit Classic.  However, having
> downloaded Stuffit Classic, I notice that the file has an hqx
> extension, which means that it needs to be opened with...
> 
> Stuffit.
> 
> I don't have Stuffit in any way shape or form on that machine
> presently.  So I am wondering how to solve this chicken-egg issue and
> if I'm missing something obvious.
> 
> Incidentally, I have neither the OS9 or 10.2 CDs
> 
> I tried unpacking it on the OS X partition and then burning the
> unpacked file to a CD...no dice.  I keep getting an error that says
> that the system doesn't know what application it was "created with".
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> -carlos
I think if you double click the .hqx file it will give you a .sea file which is 
a self extracting file.
John Carmonne
Yorba Linda USA



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