Re: [MacPerl] un-Stuffit for UNIX?

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de> writes:
In message <199701141553.QAA23681@anna.in-berlin.de> you write:
>So you say Stuffit and I say Gestalt :-)
>
>I'm in desparate need of a smart program that works on UNIX and
>un-Stuffs the .sit.bin files that arrive on CPAN.

I'm afraid there isn't one.

>The comp.compression FAQ mentions only unsit-15-unix but when I
>finally found that, it didn't want to do the job ("unknown
>compression" sort of error).

Stuffit 1.5.1 was the "compress" algorithm combined with an archiving
format. The archiving format has remained pretty much the same, but the
algorithm is now much better, but proprietary.

Maybe you could contact Aladdin <support@aladdinsys.com>, but I'm not aware of
an Unix expander, just DOS and Windows.

What *could* be done is to start distributing material in gzip format
instead of StuffIt.

Matthias

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