On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:32 PM, John Carmonne <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.

I had to install Stuffit on my PowerBook 5300 earlier tonight, and you
do need Stuffit to expand it, so you can install Stuffit. Fortunately,
I have a friend down the hall with a PowerMac 5300 that I unstuffed
with, and threw it onto a floppy (Mac format). Also, check in the
Internet Utilities folder, because IIRC, 8.6 included expander, and
I'm fairly sure 9 did, or at least the OEM install disc for my
PowerBook G3s did, anyway.

Hope this helps,
Caleb

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