Re: [NTLK] Stuff It......why I now hate it

Mac OS X's zip, tar, cp, etc., tools (atleast as of Tiger) do support
resource forks, but other platforms don't know what to do with them.
They usually get uncompressed as an OSX directory filled with ._
files (which normally would reside alongside the regular files, if
the forks are split) on other platforms.

Also StuffIt! Expander is actually still available and free. Check
out http://www.stuffit.com/mac/index.html and look for the free
Expander (or go to the download page directly: http://www.stuffit.com/
mac/expander/download.html). Also, previous versions of all the
StuffIt! versions are available one Aladdin/Allume/SmithMicro's ftp
site ftp://ftp.allume.com/ (note they haven't gotten around to
changing that URL yet).

Morgan Aldridge

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On Mar 22, 2007, at 3:55 AM, matthiasm wrote:
>
> On Mar 22, 2007, at 1:28 AM, Dan wrote:
>
>> On 3/21/2007 8:06 PM, Steven Frank wrote:
>>> On Mar 21, 2007, at 4:52 PM, Norman Palardy wrote:
>>
>>> Certainly nobody should be making NEW archives with StuffIt.  If you
>>> are, please stop.  :)
>>>
>>> Maybe someday we can have a big "convert all the .sits to .zips"
>>> party on UNNA.
>>>
>>> Steven
>>
>> Exactly!  And I am all for the "concert all the .sit to .zip",
>> count me in.
>
> Um, careful though! There is still the issue with the resource fork
> which is lost if you compress with regular .zip tools! I have not
> tested this with the OS X zip tools, which will probably preserve the
> resource fork, but I would suggest that you *test* this in all
> possible configurations *before* converting .sits into .zips. For
> example, what happens if you try to install a .zip on a OS 8 machine?
> (which is pretty common when using BasiliskII on an Intel Mac to run
> Newton software).
>
> On all other issues, I wholeheartedly agree! .sit is dead and gone
> thanks to their "expander" policy.
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