Re: Newbie Question: Extracting GS/OS in SEA format

[Eric Shepherd <sheppy@sheppyware.net>]

in article tNqq5.104507$6y5.72500117@news2.rdc2.tx.home.com, CybrSlider at
cybrslider@home.com wrote on 8/28/00 3:03 AM:

> I downloaded the GS/OS v 6.0.1 files from the Apple ftp site. I have a
> utility that will read and write Mac format discs in my PC. I transferred
> them over to my Mac. They started off in .hqx format. Those expanded out to
> a .sea format. I can't seem to extract the .sea format. I thought sea was a
> 'self-extracting archive' file. Is there a particular version of the Mac
> system software you have to be running in order to extract a sea?

I assume that you transferred the HQX files to the Mac, then used StuffIt
Expander or a similar program to remove the Binhex (HQX) wrapper, right?  If
so, I don't know why you're having this problem.  .SEA files are Mac
applications.

If you removed the Binhex wrapper on the PC, that would explain the problem;
.sea files, being Mac applications, have a resource fork that must be
present to run the program -- and unwrapping the HQX on the PC would destroy
the resource fork.

Make sure you copy the original HQX files to the Mac first, then drop them
on StuffIt Expander.


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