Re: unshrinking .sit files?

[jreiter@comet.net (Jordan Reiter)]

In article <4vr7ri$57d@darla.visi.com>, nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:

>In article <4vr20o$8k6@monet.ICSI.Net>, A Smith <ostman@wombat> wrote:
>>I recently downloaded some Mac true type fonts, decoded the bin hex
>>encoding, and now have files ending with the .sit suffix, which I assume
>>are stuff-it files. My version of GSHK/Shrink-it (Ver. 1.1 ?) shows the
>>files, but they are dimmed and will not "unstuff". 
>
>   Only early versions of Stuffit files are unpackable on the
>GS. After some date/software revision, Stuffit started using a
>proprietary, unavailable unpacker. Nothing other than Stuffit on the
>Mac can unpack it.
>
>   I rather prefer archive formats (zip, tar, gzip, NuFX, unix
>compress, lha, etc) that have source code publically available so that
>someone _could_ write and/or port an unpacker if they wanted. Most mac
>programmers don't stop to give a hoot about the rest of the world,
>though.
>
>Nathan Mates
Nathan,
I understand that you are a person who prefers PC's and Apple II's, but
regardless I feel you bash Macintosh too much. As the only other platform
which in anyway supports the Prodos file system, I feel your attakcs on
the Macintosh line a bit excessive.

Just my 2 rubles,

Toby Reiter

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