Alas, so I discovered, so I had my iBook G3 and PowerBook 180 do the expanding instead.
A little update—I found the SCSI bus chip: it's an AMD AM85C80-8JC. If I only had a good chip and a smaller soldiering iron, I could probably replace it. On May 25, 12:06 am, Gregg Eshelman <[email protected]> wrote: > --- On Tue, 5/24/11, Austin Leeds <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Bingo, finally found the issue! It > > was my version of StuffIt for > > windows messing stuff up. I'm going to try StuffIt 7, which > > preserved > > Mac-specific info in applications during stuffing and > > expanding operations. > > If you un-stuff most Mac files on any non-Mac system, you'll break the file > so it won't work on a Mac. > > The reason is because Apple chose to use a two-fork file system where every > file has a Resource Fork and a Data Fork. > > To make it even weirder, a file *may* have one or the other fork with nothing > at all in it, or for a particular file type the contents of one fork or the > other may be non-critical if it's lost. > > One example, Stuffit archives. The only thing their Resource Fork is used for > is the Stuffit icon and the Type and Creator codes. Later versions of Stuffit > programs can recognize Stuffit archives by the .sit file name extension and > will create a Resource Fork for them when you doubleclick the archive. In > older Stuffit versions the archives could be opened/extracted using the menu > commands. > > Many image, video and audio files can be opened on a Mac without a Resource > Fork, but in general - formats that originated on a Mac have data in their > Resource Forks that is critical. Quicktime videos are an odd case. They can > be "flattened" where the Resource Fork is combined with the Data Fork. Then > the video may be played on any other system with a Quicktime player app. The > oddity is if you find and copy the Resource fork, give it the extension .qtr > and place it in the same folder (on a PC) as the .mov Data Fork, Quicktime > for Windows will play the video. > > I know of no other dual fork Mac file that trick will work on. Any MOV file > that plays on a non-Mac system and has only the .mov file has been flattened. > > A special use of Apple Double is (or was) on server versions of Windows with > Services For Macintosh installed. Macs could store dual fork files on the > Windows Server without having them break. SFM also included a Forkize command > to "reattach" the forks of a file. Search Windows help for Macintosh for > information on how to utilize that if you have access to a Windows server > with SFM installed. (The info is there in XP's help, I haven't looked for it > in Vista or 7.) > > If you want even more information on Apple's fondness for creating file > systems incompatible with the rest of the computing world, look up > AppleDouble and AppleSingle. > > Aside from Stuffit archives and the few other formats/types that can survive > losing their Resource Forks, you have to keep pre-OS X Mac files 'wrapped up' > in Stuffit, MacBinary or BinHex when they're on a non-Mac system. > > Apple *was* doing away with the dual fork system in OS X but it's been > revived in 10.6 where the Data Forks of many system files have been > compressed into the files' Resource Forks. Neat trick, gives the illusion > that 10.6 is "smaller" than previous releases even though it's not. > > It's also way late to the on-the-fly decompression game. Microsoft had that > at least as far back as Windows NT4 - and almost nobody used it because it > was totally pointless. If your system was that low on space it was far better > to get more storage space. Windows still has it and still hardly anyone uses > it. Apple forces it to be used, it's on by default and there's no way to turn > it off - or at least nobody has bothered to dig in and figure out how to > disable the "Wheee! Look what I can do!" pointless bit of frippery. :P -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
