Re: [MacPerl] Writing Stuffit archives with Perl

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 09:00:37AM -0700, Brian L. Matthews wrote:
} Chris Nandor writes:
} |The only version you can get for Unix is the old algorithm.
} 
} However, AFAIK, the old version is still readable by the latest Stuffit
} Deluxe/Expander, so writing the old version may be a way to go (being the
} original poster was on a Linux box and can't just script Stuffit Deluxe).
} Also, I believe the CompactPro format is available and SD reads that. And
} of course there's always tar format, which there is a perl module available
} to read/write and which SD will read/write as well.

You can at the moment read tar, but not write it.  (To be more exact,
you cannot use Archive::Tar under MacPerl to write archives that can
be read with tar(1) on a Unix box, because of the different path
conventions).  I've written patches to allow write as well as read,
but I haven't had a chance to test them yet.

But I agree, writing old StuffIt seems to be the way to go, if you can
find the spec.

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Paul Schinder
schinder@pobox.com

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