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

[D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com>]

Jerry wrote:
> dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan) writes:
> 
>> David Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>>  Functionality is slowly making its way into AppleCommander 
>>> (Java) too.  But there's so much detail and history and tweaks that Andy
>>>
>>> McFadden has imbued CP with that it's daunting to contemplate doing it 
>>> all again.  Especially when you get into the NuFx realm - it's like 
>>> English.  All the interesting stuff is in the exceptions to the rules. 
>>> If you code to the spec, all is lost. ;-)
>>
>> Do you mean that there are interesting SHK archives? Or that the format
>> has
>> these interesting things?
>>
>> I last read the documentation on the format a few months ago when I was
>> going to write code to list the contents of SHK files, but I didn't get
>> too
>> far, and I ended up working on another project instead. Now I'm back at
>> it.
>>
>> Since I serve Mac files too, FormatConverter will deal with them, but
>> fortunately, there aren't nearly as many formats for Macs. Mostly just
>> BinHex and StuffIt. I wonder if I should allow perverse conversions...
>> like
>> converting Apple II formats into Mac formats...
> 
> 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.


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