sit files - what to use to decompress for free?
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From: "Dave Smithz" <SPAM FREE on 5 Sep 2005 16:13 Surely this has been asked many times before, but a friend who has just moved to Mac (latest Mac Powerbook) needed help setting up. However, on trying to install a Cannon N1240u and downloading the driver I found it is a sit file? I worked out this is a compression standard like zip files, however I cannot seem to find a good program to unzip it? I would have thought this would have been built into the OS. Also, how do I go about installing scanner drivers for the Mac. There was a printing and fax option under preferences but no scanner. Will it be easy once I have decompressed the scanners. Kind regards Dave.
From: Boris Harss on 5 Sep 2005 16:41 Hi! > Surely this has been asked many times before, but a friend who has just > moved to Mac (latest Mac Powerbook) needed help setting up. Sounds like me a few month ago. Let me tell you, *especially* as an experienced PC user, you might have some surprises and frustrations. > However, on trying to install a Cannon N1240u and downloading the driver I > found it is a sit file? > > I worked out this is a compression standard like zip files, however I cannot > seem to find a good program to unzip it? Sit - files are a weapon that Mac Users love to inflict on the rest of the world. Maybe I only changed from the Unix/PC side to Apple to be finally able to read files my so-called friends sent me. Sit is a proprietary format, to be extracted with StuffIt Expander - Free on the Mac and Shareware on the PC (or at least one of these programs that enforce registration anyways). I did quite some research and could not find an alternative on the PC that could read Sit-files. With many highly efficient and fast compression programs in existence, I am at a total loss why this specific thing made it to the standard in the Mac world. > I would have thought this would have been built into the OS. Well, you find StuffIt Expander installed with Tiger, or at least I had it already installed on my computer when it came. > Also, how do I go about installing scanner drivers for the Mac. There was a > printing and fax option under preferences but no scanner. Will it be easy > once I have decompressed the scanners. I guess, it will be quite easy, as you write. On piece of advice: With some devices, you might search and search for a driver only to find out that it already works without you installing a driver at all. For my Canon 8400F Scanner however, I needed to install drivers and, of course, the scanner software. Not so for my HP ink jet and (!) an external USB sound card. Chees, B.
From: Helpful Harry on 5 Sep 2005 17:11 In article <nobody-8A9B83.13183205092005(a)comcast.dca.giganews.com>, John Rethorst <nobody(a)nowhere.net> wrote: > In article <431ca6de$1(a)news1.homechoice.co.uk>, "Dave Smithz" <SPAM FREE > WORLD> > wrote: > > > Surely this has been asked many times before, but a friend who has just > > moved to Mac (latest Mac Powerbook) needed help setting up. > > > > However, on trying to install a Cannon N1240u and downloading the driver I > > found it is a sit file? > > > > I worked out this is a compression standard like zip files, however I > > cannot > > seem to find a good program to unzip it? > > Stuffit Expander, free at > http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/stuffitexpander.html StuffIt Expander will also uncompress lots of other formats as well, including .zip, so is a very handy piece of software to have. Helpful Harry Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)
From: Doc O'Leary on 5 Sep 2005 17:47 In article <431ca6de$1(a)news1.homechoice.co.uk>, "Dave Smithz" <SPAM FREE WORLD> wrote: > However, on trying to install a Cannon N1240u and downloading the driver I > found it is a sit file? > > I worked out this is a compression standard like zip files, however I cannot > seem to find a good program to unzip it? > > I would have thought this would have been built into the OS. As others have noted, StuffIt Expander is the tool to handle .sit files, and it *was* included with the OS prior to Tiger. That means the driver you're looking to install may *not* be for Tiger, and it is in your best interest to *not* attempt to install the driver if it might be incompatible with the OS. Contact Cannon and ask when a Tiger-compatible version of their driver will be made available. The solution is not to get Expander; no software worth having for Tiger is distributed as a .sit anymore.
From: "Dave Smithz" <SPAM FREE on 5 Sep 2005 18:49
"Doc O'Leary" <droleary.usenet(a)2h2005.subsume.com> wrote in message news:droleary.usenet-> As others have noted, StuffIt > and it *was* included with the OS prior to Tiger. That means the driver > you're looking to install may *not* be for Tiger, and it is in your best > interest to *not* attempt to install the driver if it might be > incompatible with the OS. Contact Cannon and ask when a > Tiger-compatible version of their driver will be made available. The > solution is not to get Expander; no software worth having for Tiger is > distributed as a .sit anymore. OK I am a bit confused to what he has. Would tiger be on the latest powerbook over the weekend? It is turning out to be more frustrating and annoying then I thought actually. Even took me a while to eject the CD. Anyway, when I use the CD that came with the scanner, it said about installing an older os and I started looking into this legacy Mac 9 driver or something but then thought it was taking too long and would be easier to get the newer version ( or maybe not as it turns out). So what should I do. How do I use a scanner with the Mac? I am not in front of the Mac now but it should be the latest version so is this tiger. I remember it saying Mac OS X but then I also remember seeing version 10 somewhere? I really hoped this Scanner would be easy to install but it's proving much harder then installing something on a PC. Kind regards Dave |