Re: [MacPerl] StuffIt on Unix

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

On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 01:46:55PM +0200, Carl Johan Berglund wrote:
} At 11.57 +0200 98-10-16, PwrSurge wrote:
} >.sit files use the resource fork a little.  ONLY the MacOS can handle
} >dual-fork files (DATA and RESOURCE).  Un*x would not be able to decode
} >.sit, sorry.
} 
} But there is a Stuffit Expander (or Aladdin Expander) for Windows that can
} decode Stuffit files from Macintosh...

Yes, there is, and .sit is a data-fork only format.  There's nothing
in principle that prevents a Unix Stuffit Expander.  The real problem
is that .sit is a proprietary format, and only Aladdin can provide a
Unix version.  They haven't seen fit to do that (and they'd have to
decide which Unixen to support, since they probably wouldn't produce
the source.)

About .hqx, in addition to megatron (comes with netatalk), there's
also mcvert, which is available in the Info-Mac archives.  If you want
to do it in Perl, there's Eryq's Convert::BinHex (any CPAN site) which
will run on any platform, and my MacPerl front end to Convert::BinHex,
which I call Mac::Conversions
(<http://pobox.com/~schinder/MacPerl.html>).  None of these will do
Stuffit.


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