getting stuffit to install

2002-12-20 Thread Midgar-Survivor
I have uncompressed stuffit expander 5.5 on my windows machine amd tansfered the file to my powerbook 3400 but it still will not install. the file is named Aladdin expander 5.5 installer i get the message could not find the application program that created the document named aladdin expander 5.5

Re: getting stuffit to install

2002-12-20 Thread Mehdi El Gueddari
On 20/12/02 15:28, Midgar-Survivor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have uncompressed stuffit expander 5.5 on my windows machine amd tansfered the file to my powerbook 3400 but it still will not install. Welcome to Macintosh ! A few things to know about transferring files between PC and Mac : - you

Re: getting stuffit to install

2002-12-20 Thread Kent Peterson
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Mehdi El Gueddari wrote: - you can download a compressed executable (.bin, .sit, .hqx, .zip...) and transfer it to your Mac just like any other document but DO NOT decompress the file on the PC, If you do that, the file will be unreadable on the Mac (that what you've

Re: getting stuffit to install

2002-12-20 Thread Mehdi El Gueddari
On 20/12/02 16:21, Kent Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not strictly true. A PC program like TransMac can allow you to use a PC to transfer Mac binary applications to your Mac. I tried transmac a few months ago but I thought that it was just useful to write on a mac formated foppy.

Re: getting stuffit to install

2002-12-20 Thread Mike Amato
From: Mehdi El Gueddari [EMAIL PROTECTED] To install stuffit on your 3400, just find an ISP install CD (there are plenty around in France so I guess that it's the same in the US) : generally, you can find an uncompressed Stuffit expander on those CD (of course, you need to have a CD player

Re: getting stuffit to install

2002-12-20 Thread Kent Peterson
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Mehdi El Gueddari wrote: On 20/12/02 16:21, Kent Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not strictly true. A PC program like TransMac can allow you to use a PC to transfer Mac binary applications to your Mac. I tried transmac a few months ago but I thought that it