Re: unshrinking .sit files?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

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

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