On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 17:54, Scott Holder wrote:
> Well, if you're going to go to all that trouble, you might as well put
> Stuffit on the floppy. The main executable for Stuffit 5.5 will fit fine
> on a floppy.

yes, i've tranferred that over okay... i can only download on my PCs
(windows and linux).. its just that the Mac machine that can't read the
hqx file yet... 
> 
> Any browser would also be compressed, most likely.

argh.... !
i thought this would get complex... and twice as complex given that i
dont have another Mac.... !
> 
> All is not lost, however. If you have another Mac with network access,
> just use that one to download and extract Stuffit
> 
> If you're on a PC, grab a program called HFV Explorer which will also
> uncompress the binhex to a floppy, but also maintain the Maccishness of
> it.

ahhh, thanks heaps - now that sounds brilliant! 

will give it a go :)

bw
m
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> Scott Holder
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> hmm.... now that i think is where its gonna get interesting....
> 
> i dont have a browser on this baby either! uh-oh.... 
> 
> its my dumpster-rescue mac, so i dont have OS disks for it.. 
> 
> can you recommend a browser version that will do this unstuffing biz but
> will fit on a floppy? i'm not networked yet either... !
> 
> thanx heaps
> 
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