On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 05:05:06PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Anthony J. Stuckey wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 06:29:53PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > > Truthfully, I was thinking stuffit pretty much came with modern mac os > > > versions. Clearly not. > > > > It depends on what you mean by "modern". I think that was included > > starting with 7.6. > > I think that prior to MacOS 7.6, MacOS installers didn't provide a way to > unpack even a binhex (.hqx) or macbinary (.bin), let alone stuffit (.sit). > > Maybe someone can put together an HFS floppy under MacOS with penguin and > emile (and, space permitting, a kernel and bootloader configuration) and > then rip an image under linux using dd. > > The image could be downloaded and dd'd onto a floppy using any linux box > without special tools and then read on a mac. (I've used this trick to > create 1440 KB bootable mac disk tools floppies from my x86 laptop running > linux 2.6.7 ... YMMV.) This is pretty much what I think will have to be done. -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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