jblue@mwunix.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) (05/21/91)
Has any one encounter problems with Compactor Pro self extracting files under System 7? I used to have problems under 6.0.7, but I ignored them. Now, under System 7.0, I find that I get an alert "application wants 0K of memory. 0K available. Do you wish to open application with available memory"? If I click OK (or Yes, whaterver), I get an error that the application quit because of lack of memory. If I try to edit the Get Info application size, it first of all takes about 3 minutes for the Get Info to appear, and then it will not let me save the changes (not enough memory, please close applications and windows). Any ideas? I am using a Mac IIci with no extensions other then the Systems , CD-ROM 3.1, and MacTCP. THank you, Jason
bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG) (05/22/91)
In article <jblue.674831650@mwunix.mitre.org> jblue@mwunix.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) writes: > >Has any one encounter problems with Compactor Pro self extracting files under >System 7? > >I used to have problems under 6.0.7, but I ignored them. Now, under System 7.0, >I find that I get an alert "application wants 0K of memory. 0K available. Do >you wish to open application with available memory"? > At BMUG, we've found that about half of Compactor self-extracting archive files will barf under System 7. There are rumors that Compactor is being worked on to alleviate these problems, but I can't give you an ETA on a new version. Incidentally, the same phenomenon occurs with Diamond self-extracting archives (though we haven't tried enough of them to come up with a statistically-significant incidence measure). John Heckendorn -- /\ BMUG ARPA: bmug@garnet.berkeley.EDU A__A 1442A Walnut St., #62 BITNET: bmug@ucbgarne |()| Berkeley, CA 94709 Phone: (415) 549-2684 | |
johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu (05/22/91)
In article <1991May22.065901.701@agate.berkeley.edu>, bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG) writes... >In article <jblue.674831650@mwunix.mitre.org> jblue@mwunix.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) writes: >> >>Has any one encounter problems with Compactor Pro self extracting files under >>System 7? >At BMUG, we've found that about half of Compactor self-extracting archive >files will barf under System 7. There are rumors that Compactor is being >worked on to alleviate these problems, but I can't give you an ETA on a >new version. Bill Goodman just released a freeware extractor for "self-extracting" archives called DeSEA. It was posted to comp.binaries.mac and can be found on sumex-aim.stanford.edu edu in /info-mac/util. It is also possible to extract files from the '.sea' archives using Compact Pro itself. I haven't noticed any problems under 7.0 with self-extracting archives created with Compact Pro, so it's possible that the problem is already fixed. Parenthetically, the ".sea" archives are great for sending things to people who can't figure out ".cpt", but for archival sites its really just 7K of unnecessary bandwidth. Bill (johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu)
pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby) (05/22/91)
In article <jblue.674831650@mwunix.mitre.org> jblue@mwunix.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) writes: > >Has any one encounter problems with Compactor Pro self extracting files under >System 7? > [memory problems described] >Jason If all else fails, you can just use Compact Pro to extract the files from the archive--the program will still recognize the SEA file as one of it's own. You can either extract the contents and toss the SEA, or do a 'Save As...' and save without the auto-extraction code. I've never found a reason to put things in SEA form, what with Compact Pro and/or Extractor readily available. -- | Paul E. Jacoby, 3M Company, 3M Center, 235-3F-27 | | Maplewood, MN 55144-1000 .-----------------------------------| | => pejacoby@3m.com | I am _not_ the editor of | | (612) 737-3211 | the Radio Times. |