Opening an sea File in OSX?

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themacko

Barking at the moon.
So I downloaded a little guy this morning that ends with sea. It was specifically a Mac file, and intended for OSX at that. So why doesn't my Mac know what to do with it?
 
.sea - Self Extracting, mostly for older systems.
Try dropping it on Stuffit Expander.

If that doesn't work, Get Info and change the .sea to .app
 
It's actually supposed to be an application that self-extracts.

One thing that may be problematic is - it might be an OS9 .sea. Enable classic & try again, or try stuffit expander.
 
Well dropping it onto Stuffit did the trick .. sort of. It created a new sea file that runs an installer, but the installer freezes. Not a Stuffit problem, but it still sucks.

Thanks for the help though, guys.
 
It doesn't have 100% of all file extensions listed, but a good site to find out about file extensions is Filext.com. Has solved a few obscure or other OS specific queries I had. May come in handy for future reference. :)
 
A .sea file is for OS 9 and older. Self extracting files like .sea do not work in OS X.
 
I had a client send me a .sea a few weeks ago, and I'm running 10.3.4 at work. Stuffit Expander didn't work for me, so I used File Buddy to change the file type to a .sitx...I didn't really think that this would work, but it did.
 
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