Re: FormatConverter, was Re: Many File Formats: do they bother you?

[Jerry <awanderin@yahoo.ca>]

D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> writes:

> Jerry wrote:
>> dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan) writes:
[...]
>> StuffIt ought to prove interesting.  I've looked many times for
>> documentation on its compression format and never come up with
>> anything.  Whoever owns it these days (it was Alladin Systems for the
>> longest time) still makes available the free Mac and Windows decoders,
>> but the free Linux ones don't work with any of the more recent StuffIt
>> archives.
>> 
>> If you find source code or documentation on the format, I'm all ears!
>
> There's Unix versions of the older 1.5.1 format in source form. I've seen
> them around. They're probably in the Usenet archive somewhere. Plus, I've
> got some third party programs that can open StuffIt files. One is called The
> Unarchiver. Says it's PD software.

Yes, I have that version, source and all.  It chokes on most SIT files.
I will have to look for The Unarchiver. 

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