Emax

I have just purchased a used Mac and have downloaded the SIT files of 
Alchemy 3.0, Sound Designer II and Turbosynth.  I used my PC to 
download the files.  I used a PC version of stuffit to expand the files 
and put them on a PC floppy.  I put the PC floppy in the MAC and it 
reads the files as PC files and won't open them.

Unfortunatley I have never used a MAC before and have no clue what I'm 
doing.  I have ordered an older copy of Mac for Dummies that relates to 
the older OS 7.5 the MAC has but any help in the meantime would be 
great.

Thanks,
Madtux

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:02:46PM -0000, David Mattock wrote:
> I have just purchased a used Mac and have downloaded the SIT files of 
> Alchemy 3.0, Sound Designer II and Turbosynth.  I used my PC to 
> download the files.  I used a PC version of stuffit to expand the files 
> and put them on a PC floppy.  I put the PC floppy in the MAC and it 
> reads the files as PC files and won't open them.
> 
> Unfortunatley I have never used a MAC before and have no clue what I'm 
> doing.  I have ordered an older copy of Mac for Dummies that relates to 
> the older OS 7.5 the MAC has but any help in the meantime would be 
> great.
> 
> Thanks,
> Madtux

You should get the MacOS version of the free Stuffit Expander, and
expand the .sit files _after_ transferring them to the mac.

If you unpack the .sit archives on a PC, the Mac-typical "resource fork"
is lost during unpacking. (MacOS uses a dual representation of files --
a so called "data" fork and a "resource" fork. During packing with
stuffit, the file is reduced to a single data fork to ease transferring
via foreing systems.)

A Stuffit Expander for MacOS 7.5.x is hopefully still available from
http://www.aladdin.com/ -- if not, I'm sure I can find one for you.

Peter
-- 
the tasty machine that goes "ping" ate the big can of spam


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try leave them on the floppy (or cdr) as the original .sit archive, then extract on the mac, or just plug your mac into the net instead...(chances are you'll need the right vers. of stuffit for this). try www.macfixit.com among others for resources regarding older macs...



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