Utility to extract .SIT (StuffIt) archives?

Gregory Gulik greg at gulik.org
Fri Jul 16 20:53:22 UTC 2004



netmask wrote:
> Interesting.. I don't know /anything/ about stuffit, but I know people 
> like WinZip have new "High Compression" features that aren't compat with 
> unzip (or WinRar, etc)..
> 
> I wonder if Stuffit has added new features in their 8.0 release that 
> aren't in the older releases.
 >
> I would drop them a note if you have the time and let them know they 
> should update their linux versions when they update their Windows 
> version. Perhaps send them the strace output of that command.

Good point, I will do that.


> Hopefully that was Windows running under vmware! :P

Yes, but that's only marginally better than running it on a separate 
box.  *SIGH*

> Long live bzip2.

Yup...  I asked my customer to resend the file using some other 
archiving program and he said he got it from someone else and you know 
where this is going.

Sometimes it just better to waste my time than trouble a customer, 
especially a new one...


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Greg Gulik                                 http://www.gulik.org/greg/
greg @ gulik.org





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