Re: [MacPerl] StuffIt on Unix

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 07.46 -0400 1998.10.16, 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...

Yep.  The resource fork is decoded as a separate file under other OSes, and
can be used by the Expander if necessary, and then thrown away.

There is only one thing stopping a Stuffit Expander on Unix: Aladdin has
not written it, and no one else can do it because the algorithms are
proprietary.

I wrote a note to Aladdin awhile back about it, and just a few months ago
an emplyee there wrote to me and said they were considering a port.

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