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

I'm all for moving away from the StuffIt! format at this point as it
really has no use in this day and age, but it has significant history
for Mac users. We'll have to be careful to preserve resource forks
where they exist if we try to migrate all packages away from it. Even
then, older Macs may not have the necessary tools to decode a zip
file containing resource forks, so .sit files still may have to
remain (although it's perfectly reasonable to have a .sit version as
well as a .zip version).

Really, if it's something that you want to be able to open on the
Newton, there's little reason to have it in any format other
than .pkg anyway (although .zip or .gzip might slightly improve
transfer speed, you'll lose that benefit when trying to decode it on
the Newton).

Morgan Aldridge

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On Mar 22, 2007, at 9:14 AM, Goodwin, Greg P. wrote:
>
> Handy to know, but I think it would be wise to move away from a closed
> source standard like StuffIt.  Besides, it was always hell for me to
> have a file that was STUFFED when I was trying to get around solely on
> my Newton.  I can Unzip from my Newton, but StuffIt archives I would
> always cuss because I knew from my dealings with the developers of
> StuffIt that they would never release stuff for the Newton, nor would
> they work with someone to develop that standard for the Newton.  So on
> this basis alone I say retooling the archives would be worth it.
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