Re: .sit files

2001-04-20 Thread W. Crowshaw
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:31:08PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:51:17AM -0500, W. Crowshaw wrote: Actually, it doesn't hurt anything if the MacOS HFS FS is mounted on the kernel and hmount'ed with hfsutils. I access the HFS FS both mounted and hmounted all the

Re: .sit files

2001-04-19 Thread Nelson Abramson
On Wednesday 18 April 2001 23:14, Joseph Red wrote: Michael Schmitz wrote: Seriously: I've never had any luck with unsit or macunpack or the like. .sit files are essentially useless on the Linux side. Then why does bootx come packaged on the 2.2r2 CD as a .sit file? I'm clueless when

Re: .sit files

2001-04-19 Thread Andrew Sharp
to deal with if you don't have the right stuffit on your system. But there are still some hurdles left for you to cross. Good luck, Grasshopper. a Joseph Red wrote: Michael Schmitz wrote: Seriously: I've never had any luck with unsit or macunpack or the like. .sit files are essentially

Re: .sit files

2001-04-19 Thread Michael D. Crawford
It's not just that you _should_ unpack BootX on the Mac side, it's that you have to. It is a Mac OS application, and therefore has a filetype, creator code, and resource fork. While you might be able to extract the bitstreams of all these (and the data fork), they won't do you much good. What

Re: .sit files

2001-04-19 Thread Peter Cordes
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:55:26AM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote: It's not just that you _should_ unpack BootX on the Mac side, it's that you have to. No you don't. When I bought my Mac second hand, it had a _minimal_ install of MacOS 9 on it. When I say minimal, I mean no web browser, no

Re: .sit files

2001-04-19 Thread Michael Schmitz
Seriously: I've never had any luck with unsit or macunpack or the like. .sit files are essentially useless on the Linux side. Then why does bootx come packaged on the 2.2r2 CD as a .sit file? I'm Maybe because BootX is a MacOS application, and it is generally assumed that if you use

Re: .sit files

2001-04-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:02:48AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: Agreed! They should use macbinary, or gzipped macbinary (since most people have an extractor capable of handling gzip). there is only two files for bootx that even require macbinary, the extention and the application.

Re: .sit files

2001-04-19 Thread W. Crowshaw
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:02:48AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:55:26AM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote: It is a Mac OS application, and therefore has a filetype, creator code, and resource fork. While you might be able to extract the bitstreams of all these (and

Re: .sit files

2001-04-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:51:17AM -0500, W. Crowshaw wrote: Actually, it doesn't hurt anything if the MacOS HFS FS is mounted on the kernel and hmount'ed with hfsutils. I access the HFS FS both mounted and hmounted all the time. then you have been lucky. the kernel will NOT be aware of the

Re: .sit files

2001-04-19 Thread Peter Cordes
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:31:08PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:51:17AM -0500, W. Crowshaw wrote: Actually, it doesn't hurt anything if the MacOS HFS FS is mounted on the kernel and hmount'ed with hfsutils. I access the HFS FS both mounted and hmounted all the

.sit files

2001-04-18 Thread Damien GUIHAL
Is anyone know if there is a tool with or without GUI to compress/uncompress .sit files. Thanks in advance Damien GUIHAL

Re: .sit files

2001-04-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Damien GUIHAL wrote: Is anyone know if there is a tool with or without GUI to compress/uncompress .sit files. A quick search on package content for stable at http://packages.debian.org/ confirms what I believe I have once used with success: a tiny tool called unsit

Re: .sit files

2001-04-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:11:18PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Damien GUIHAL wrote: Is anyone know if there is a tool with or without GUI to compress/uncompress .sit files. A quick search on package content for stable at http://packages.debian.org/ confirms what

Re: .sit files

2001-04-18 Thread Michael Schmitz
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:21:32AM +0200, Damien GUIHAL wrote: Is anyone know if there is a tool with or without GUI to compress/uncompress .sit files. /bin/rm That was the compress part. Uncompress with /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=$1 Seriously: I've never had any luck with unsit