OT: paging MAC expert(s) --- What's a Performa?

From: gwynp_at_artware.qc.ca <(gwynp_at_artware.qc.ca)>
Date: Sat Nov 17 21:23:08 2001

On 17-Nov-2001 Richard Erlacher wrote:
> I've downloaded TattleTech, but where, now, do I find the Stuffit
> Expander?

You're best bet is to buy a Mac Addict or other magazine that has a CD-ROM
(you do have a CD drive?). Older Macs don't "boot-strap" very well. Yes,
you can get a SEA (self-extracting archive) of Stuffit, but it won't do
you much good. Mac OS has 2 forks per file. One for data, the other
for code. When you download a file or when you copy a file from a PC
formated disk everything goes into the data fork. Doing something
equivalent to "chmod +x file.sea" is impossible on Mac OS without an
external program, like say Stuffit. *sigh* If you are lucky, you'll have
a recent version of Mac OS which includes Stuffit.

I find this to be one of the most incredible "features" of Mac OS. Apart
from that, as long as you have a real computer nearby, using a Mac isn't
that bad.

What's the use of a Mac of that vintage (ie, old and slow but not
classic)? I have a Centris 660av that I use for testing web pages on
older macintosh versions of Netscape and MSIE. Of course, finding a 68k
version of MSIE is something of a challenge.

-Philip
Received on Sat Nov 17 2001 - 21:23:08 GMT