Re: .sea.bin format

[CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:44:17 -0000, salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott
Alfter) wrote:

>If you know what kind of compression is inside the archive, an unarchiver on
>another platform might be able to handle it.  For example, I can create a
>self-extracting archive with PKZIP or WinZip and unpack the resulting .exe
>under Linux by feeding it to unzip.  It ignores the self-extractor code and
>reads just the archive contents.  Maybe something is possible here.

I wrote an Apple II utility called ZipStripper that strips a ZIP file
out of a self-extracting ZIP file so I know what you're talking about.

I just tried to used StuffIt Expander for Windows to unpack one of the
.sea.bin files on Apple's site and it won't do it.  It will remove the
MacBinary header but that leaves me with a data fork and a resource
fork as two separate files for the .sea part and it won't unpack the
split file.  I can find no way to get it to skip the MacBinary and
simply unpack the .sea file nor can I get it to extract the MacBinary
to a single .sea file to try and unpack that.

To compound things, the StuffIt format is proprietary so no one can
write a utility that will ignore the MacBinary header and
self-extracting code and simply unpack the StuffIt file that it in
there. :/

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