Re: [NTLK] Stuff It......why I now hate it

matthiasm wrote:
> On Mar 22, 2007, at 1:28 AM, Dan wrote:
>
>> On 3/21/2007 8:06 PM, Steven Frank wrote:
>>> On Mar 21, 2007, at 4:52 PM, Norman Palardy wrote:
>>> Certainly nobody should be making NEW archives with StuffIt. If you
>>> are, please stop. :)
>>>
>>> Maybe someday we can have a big "convert all the .sits to .zips"
>>> party on UNNA.
>>>
>>> Steven
>> Exactly! And I am all for the "concert all the .sit to .zip",
>> count me in.
>
> Um, careful though! There is still the issue with the resource fork
> which is lost if you compress with regular .zip tools! I have not
> tested this with the OS X zip tools, which will probably preserve the
> resource fork, but I would suggest that you *test* this in all
> possible configurations *before* converting .sits into .zips. For

so why not leave the older sit's as is and ADD zips to the archive? yes
the archive is larger but then we wouldn't have to worry about this
issue. alternatively we could just expand them and leave them as is and
compress is needed?

william

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