software to make .sea

[asalerni]

is there a free software to make a self extract archive?

I need to split an installation file into more files and then make it .sea

I tried with ZipIt but it seems working just if you have it installed.

 

[albloom]

SEA is a concept that hasn't come to OSX yet. Dropstuff under Classic or OS9
has an "SEA for OS9" option.

 

[asalerni]

Oh, thank you, I didn't know it.

ANyway, I need something to split an installation file into more files, but the final user will not have this software I use to split.

suggestion?

 

[albloom]

I'm back to Stuffit and OS9. Once you make an SEA, Stuffit can
split it up for you into whatever size segments are convenient. If
the final user has OS9/Classic, double-clicking on the first segment
will automagically join all segments together and un-stuff the result.

That's Stuffit Standard or Deluxe. Not the freebies that accompany
the Mac OS. You need to buy a copy. The final user doesn't.

 

[asalerni]

something else?

 

[scaryfish]

It's worth pointing out that if you're familiar with the command line (os x) you can just use a zip file and split it.

Use the "make archive" command in the finder followed by:
split -b xm
where x is the size in megabytes you want each chunk to be.
Then on the other end they can use:
cat file.1 file.2 file.3 > output.zip
and the zip should be fine.

 

[asalerni]

thank you so much, I did an AppleScript that use this command in the Terminal