OK, here's my situation... I have an LC 580 that's not connected to the
Internet, and I don't have a 56K modem that I can hook up to it. Is there
anyway I can download Macintosh programs on my Internet ready PC, and put
them on a disc and put them onto the LC 580?

Thanks!

In article <RuUSc.17021$gd1.4237@trndny05>,
"Dr. Tom B. Whatever" <knawdas********.com> wrote:

> OK, here's my situation... I have an LC 580 that's not connected to the
> Internet, and I don't have a 56K modem that I can hook up to it. Is there
> anyway I can download Macintosh programs on my Internet ready PC, and put
> them on a disc and put them onto the LC 580?
>
> Thanks!

It can be done, but there's a trick to it... involving several tricks.

1) Your Mac should be able to read PC-formatted floppy diskettes...
check that it can, by inserting a PC floppy-- it should appear on the
desktop, perhaps with the logo PC on it.

If your Mac has a CD drive in it, you MAY similarly, be able to read
PC-formatted CD-R discs.

If not, check to see if you have the PC Exchange (or Apple File
Exchange) extension in your system folder-- perhaps in the Disabled
Extensions or Disabled Control Panels sub-folder-- you need one of these
loading at start up to have support for PC floppy disks.

2) Just because you can read a diskette doesn't mean that your Mac will
know what to do with the data-- when you get files from a PC, the
Mac-specific 'resource fork' is nuked, losing the Mac's information on
what to do with the file.

You should be OK however, if the files on the floppy are Stuffit
archives (often ending with a file extension: .SIT or .SEA)... if that's
the case, double-clicking on them may not automatically load them into
Stuffit Expander (which is present on most Macs) because of the issues
in 2) above... however, manually locate your Stuffit Expander icon and
either open the program and then use its File/Open menu to open the
archives, or drag and drop the file onto the Stuffit Expander icon to
open it.

Note of course that your old LC will be somewhat limited (by old
operating system version, amount of RAM, etc) in what it can run.

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