Re: Wolfenstein 3D levels

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Sat, 07 Mar 1998 10:59:00 GMT, brian.hammack@rook.wa.com (Brian
Hammack) wrote:

> Jeff said:
>
> SSN| : By the way, if StuffIt supports other packing formats, why do
>    | all the : Mac users continue to use the proprietary StuffIt
>    | format instead of : one of the non-proprietary formats that is
>
>One word: forks.

A choice of  words:  AppleSingle or AppleDouble

This is a method that Apple came up with for dealing with forked files
on foreign operating systems.  AppleSingle appends the resource fork
to the end of the data fork and AppleDouble save the data and resource
forks as separate files.

GSHK can turn AppleSingle files back into their extended versions.

>And yes, some foo' did once run LemminGS or Diamonds through PKZIP and
>post on an web archive once.  Needless to say it didn't work.
>
>The question should be:  why does anyone use a proprietary format on a
>file that is of universal use/appeal?  It really peeves me when I find
>a file I *know* is TXT/JPG/GIF/etc posted somewhere as either self-
>extracting file or an archiving scheme that I can't get into properly.

This is what I was getting at with my original post.

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