on 12/6/02 12:14 AM, Chris Kitchener at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I am supposed to download "OS9 >> Helper b7" and then click on it to bring up a window which says "OS9 Helper >> " and shows installation settings. However, when I do this I get a little >> gray horizontal block of about 6 items and in the upper right hand corner of >> my computer screen I see a note that says "Stuffit Delux ". >> Ordinarily all my downloads are automatically expanded when they hit my >> screen. >> What is the problem here? > > > I have been thru this several times and always forget in between > occurrences. However in this case I just had the same experience > with the OS 9 helper recently. The problem is that the archive you > have downloaded is incomplete or corrupted in some way. As you say, > normally Stuffit just does it's work and then shuts down. In this it > tries to expand the file and can't so it just sits there waiting for > you to tell it what to expand. You need to download the file again. > It took me two downloads before I got a clean file and even then I'm > not sure the helper works properly. I ended up working around it. > > This brings up a question I've had about 9.2 on unsupported machines. > Does (or should) this list cover this aspect of "unsupported" > activities? The only other place I've found is the OWC web-site but > they want $10 to join the forum (not that I think this is > unreasonable for hosting the list). > > Chris K
Thanks a lot Chris. I went to Version Tracker and downloaded OS9 Helper ob7, and it worked fine. I now have OS 9.2.2 on this partiton of my external drive. The reason I did this was so that I could install Classic on this partition. How do I do this? Wilton -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
