Re: [MacPerl] StuffIt on Unix

[Georges Martin <georges.martin@deboeck.be>]

Paul J. Schinder wrote:

>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.)

If I said in my reply that I didn't know of any _recent_ utilities for 
(un)stuffing on UNIX is that I'm pretty sure there was one. 

I can remember a discussion about it some years ago (!) on Compuserve. 
IIRC, it was done by Aladdin themselves but supported only one of their 
early compression format, which wouldn't be appropriate for today's use 
anyway.

Georges Martin

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