Older Mac programs no showing up in Clasic 9.2 running under 10.3.9

[Kent13]

Good morning,
I recently began transitioning from a PowerTower Pro running system 8.6 to a B&W G3 running system 10.3.9. I have some programs (a family history one in particular: Family History 2.3.1) that is not showing up as a program on the B&W. The program is essentially stand alone, with some support files that just need to be in the same folder. The program is about 700k, but when I try to copy it over to the G3, it shows up as a zero k file.

I have other system 9 files that are running just fine (Microsoft office files), so I know Classic is working.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Kent

[Cheryl]

It could be that that program needs to be installed rather than just copied. Do you have the original installer?

[Kent13]

My mac will not even recognize the install program, even with Classic running. There is no option to say "use the program I am double-clicking" as the application to run. The install disk is dated 1995, so it is fairly old.

Again, when I try to just move the installed program over, a 700k file turns up as a 0k file on my B&W. This is the only program that I consider critical to being able to excess my old PowerTower.

Thanks for your ideas,
Kent13

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Can you try creating an archive of the file (either .ZIP or .SIT), then transferring it across the network, and then unzipping/unstuffing the file once it's on the B&W machine?

[Kent13]

That was a great idea! I used DropStuff from Stuffit Lite 6.5.1 and created .sit files, and then extracted them using Stuffit Expander 10.0.

I used the same method to bring over the support and data files.

Now, if someone can help me find a way to print from my system 9 programs to an HP printer on the network running Windows XP Pro. I print using the SAMBA option under System 10.3, but that is not an option with system 9.

Thank you again!
Kent

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Glad to hear getting those files transferred with that method worked.

As far as I know, OS 9 does not support Windows-shared printers. You may be out of luck, as far as I know.

Thursby's DAVE for OS 9 may help -- you may want to contact the developer and inquire as to whether this is possible:

http://www.thursby.com/products/dave.html

[Kent13]

My thanks again.
Kent13