Stuffit Expander and MacHTTP
 

Hey Everyone,

You've probably seen a few threads of mine relating to my seemingly neverending quest to turn my saved-from-the-trash Macintosh Classic into something really cool. My end goal is to make it serve an html document and an image on the WWW. example 1 example 2 I'm getting very close. I have System 7.5 installed and MacTCP installed. I have MacWeb browser installed. My Asante SCSI>Ethernet adapter and drivers are coming this week.

Now, all I need is MacHTTP (www.machttp.org). This is where the problem lies. It comes as a self extracting archive file but when I go to open it, it says it will need 6 megs of memory, which a Macintosh Classic obviously does not have. I'm not sure of why the problem occurs since other people are using MacHTTP on a Macintosh Plus (even older than the Classic).

I found an older MacHTTP, version 2.2, that is a Stuffit Expander .sit file. Unfortunately, the only stuffit that my Mac has is the very early "Unstuffit" which contrary to its name, will not unstuff this file. I suppose I need a newer Stuffit Expander. The problem is, Stuffit Expander, comes stuffed. Basically, you need it in order to get it. So if you never have it in the first place, what do you do?

It is like getting WinZip as a zip file. What do you do?

I would greatly appreciate if someone could help me with this. All I need to do is get MacHTTP on to that Mac. Unfortunately, the only computer that I currently have online is a PC. But luckily I have TransMac installed, a program to write Mac floppy disks.

If I had another Mac, this would be easy because I could unstuff the files and then put them on floppies for the Classic. But the files must remain stuffed on a PC otherwise they get corrupted.

I have searched until the end of the Internet and have tried everything I could think of. And now, I ask you for help.

Thanks.

Re: Stuffit Expander and MacHTTP
 

is it possible to get it for the pc, unstuff then stick on a ton of floppies?

Re: Stuffit Expander and MacHTTP
 

What you need is an old enough version of Stuffit Expander :)
The old Unstuffit is for the original Stuffit 1.2 format, I believe, which has undergone many changes since. The latest version that will run under System 6 is this one (3.51), which ought to be a self-expanding archive (.sea). See if that works. :)

Re: Stuffit Expander and MacHTTP
 

Thanks for the suggestion but I actually tried that one without any success before creating this thread. Fortunately, this morning (after searching until the end of the Internet) I found a .sea version of Stuffit Expander 4 on some obscure college server. It installed without a hitch. If anyone wants it let me know and I'll be glad to provide. Then I successfully unstuffed and installed MacHTTP 2.2 as well. It looks like I am all set. I was not able to reach the server by typing localhost (or 127.0.0.1) in the browser, but perhaps there is no link between them. Maybe I need an outside machine. Does anyone know? But both the browser and server appear to be runing fine, (at least as much as I can test without an Ethernet connection yet).

The next thing I am looking for is some sort of RAM enhancing software for the Classic. I found OptiMem (RAMCharger) for free but apparently it is a trial and I'm not sure how to make it keep working for longer. Are there any other shareware/freeware RAM optimizers available for the 68000 based Macs? Thanks.