[MacPerl] StuffIt on Unix

[aml@world.std.com (Andrew M. Langmead)]

Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch> wrote:
>Michael Stoodt <mstoodt@umassd.edu> writes:
>>In the days of Stuffit 1.5(.1), when it was Raymond Lau's shareware
>>and not Aladdin's commercial product (with shareware subsets), the
>>file format and algorithm was documented, and a Unix unstuffer was
>>available in source code.
>
>Yes, but I'm not sure if this was due to the goodness of Raymond's heart or to
>the fact that Stuffit 1.x used UNIX compress format with an archive header that
>was simple to reverse engineer. I don't think any of the format documentations
>were done or authorized by Aladdin.

Yes, but before Aladdin was even involved (when Raymond Lau was a High
Schools student) Stuffit was distributed with Ray's documentation on
the file format. I think Aladdin started distributing their commercial
and shareware versions when he went to college.

-- 
Andrew Langmead

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