Re: PCs & sit format

[Toby Reiter <treiter@cs.oberlin.edu>]

On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Toby Reiter wrote:

> On 14 Jul 1997, Nathan Mates wrote:
> 
> > In article <33C95D3C.7170@techie.com>,
> > Luis V. Espinoza <laffin@techie.com> wrote:
> > >greatly appreciated (source code would be wonderful)
> > 
> >    We've been thru this before. Inane proprietary data formats are
> > fine for a standalone app. However, if you're trying to transmit data
> > around, requiring that the data 'can opener' be manufactured by Ye
> > Olde Krustie Programming Co. and nobody else is a serious detriment to
> > exchanging the data. There's no security benefit or anything else in a
> > proprietary format, just stupidity.
> > 
> >    Public data exchange formats should be well-documented, with either
> > detailed filetype notes, or better yet, source code for reading that.
> > With that, anyone can port a reader to a system without too much fuss.
> > .SIT fails on pretty much all counts for being an open format.
> 
> Once again, Nathan, you've been particularly useless. You refused,
> completely to answer the original poster's quesiton with "I'm sorry, I
> don't know how you can do that...<sniff, sniff>".
> 
> To the original poster--you actually CAN unpack these formats! There is
> Stuffit Expander available on the PC (sure, it doesn't run on UNIX, but
> who cares!).  That should be able to unpack both .hqx (binhexed files) and
> .sit (Stuffit archives).  I would ask on a PC software newsgroup about
> availability.
> 
Ok, I finally found the info (available on Aladdin Systems Home page:
www.aladdinsys.com). You can download Stuffit Expander for windows at
ftp://ftp.scruz.net/users/aladdin/public/SITEX10.EXE.  This can unarchive
.sit,.hqx, .zip formats, as well as otheres. The files is also available
in uuencoded form at
ftp://ftp.scruz.net/users/aladdin/public/SITEX10.UUE
There are two other downloading sites available, listed at
www.aladdinsys.com.  For DOS, thereis UNSTUFF/PC, which is available at
ftp://ftp.scruz.net/users/aladdin/public/UNSITINS.EXE. I believe this only
deals with stuffit files. It is also downloadable in uuencoded form at
ftp://ftp.scruz.net/users/aladdin/public/UNSITINS.UUE.

Hope this helps,
Toby Reiter

p.s. My apologies to Nathan for my harsh tonein my original post, I
thought he was responding to the original poster, I didn't realize it was
in response to a request for information about the .sit format.