Re:Wolfenstein 3D levels

[ericlob@cris.com (ericlob)]

Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:
>Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>>There's also the problem of extended files.  If not .sit, how are
>>you going to store an extended file?
>
>   In a publically documented file format that handles extended files.
>Mac BinHex does extended files, but *isn't* proprietary and others can
>make their own decompressors.

I haven't looked at the format for a while, but I believe it would be
quite possible to do extended files with the current implementation of
zip.

>>It is just that for Mac users, there is no real choice.
>
>   Why don't you get educated better about data transfers and demand
>something more suitable to public xfers? There's gotta be someone with
>a clue programming them, I hope.

There are other programs for the Mac, but StuffIt is used for the same
reason that we have Shrinkit - Inertia.

What really sucks about Mac transfers is that they're all enclosed in
BinHex wrappers adding about 33% to the amount of disk space and xfer
time to throw them around the net.