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

Yes, duplicating the contents of the .sit file (either compressed or
uncompressed) would be my preferred method of going about tackling
that issue. And, as you point out, uncompressed is even more
preferable as it could then be downloaded directly to a Newton.

The reason I brought up preserving the original .sit files (when
applicable) is that, unfortunately, there is no way to create a
missing resource fork. Now, most archives contain only the .pkg file
and the majority of the data stored in the resource fork there are
the type & creator codes (hence having to use utilities to set these
on the Mac if they're missing). However, many non-pkg Mac files that
might be stored in .sit files (esp. Mac software, some documentation
formats, etc.) could have important content stored in their resource
forks that, when stripped off, renders them completely useless.

Of course, most of these are moot points considering UNNA archives
are not being actively updated.

Morgan Aldridge

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On Mar 22, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Dan wrote:
> On 3/22/2007 10:55 AM, William Pociengel wrote:
>
>> so why not leave the older sit's as is and ADD zips to the  
>> archive? yes
>> the archive is larger but then we wouldn't have to worry about this
>> issue. alternatively we could just expand them and leave them as  
>> is and
>> compress is needed?
>>
>> william
>>
> If that is such a large issue I would suggest not bothering with
> compression and just decompress the files having them in the same
> directory as the .sit (there are a number of packages that are already
> decompressed like this on UNNA).  I am not on a Mac but it seems  
> that I
> remember there are tools to create such forks anyway?
>
> I think at one point Victor saw the writing on the wall and was
> archiving the files both with .sit and uncompressed.  Not to mention
> this enables people to download the files directly to their Newton  
> if it
> is in .pkg format.
>
> -Dan
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