Re: [NTLK] I Need Help Converting Bar Code Scanner Software

From: Adam Ladds (aladds_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sat Apr 16 2005 - 04:54:59 PDT


Try Stuffit Expander for windows, it's on the stuffit site at
www.stuffit.com I think

cheers

Adam

On Saturday, April 16, 2005, at 02:41 AM, mkow1234_at_aol.com wrote:

> All right. It's getting late, I'm dead tired, and I'm meeting a buddy
> tomorrow to go on an insane mountain biking ride the day before the
> Newton Gathering. It's foolish, I know, but I have to blow off steam,
> or I'll end up shooting squirrels out of my bathroom window all day.
>
>
> I've tried to get the bar code scanner software installed on my
> Newton, but it won't work. I'd like to bring the bar code scanner
> software to the event on Sunday, so we can try a few other tricks, but
> my old PowerMac is not exactly portable. The diskette is in Mac
> format. Somebody long ago gave me a program called HFVE Explorer,
> which reads Mac diskettes on a PC. Using that, I seem to have been
> able to transfer the bar code scanner software and all the requisite
> sub files onto my PC (Still have to get them on to my laptop for
> Sunday's event, but that's a trivial matter). However, all of the
> files seem to end in the suffix .bin. The question is, is there an
> EASY way for a non-Mac person to create or extract a workable .pkg
> file from this gibberish? Perhaps I could send these files to somebody
> and it could be done easily? Help!

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