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

I'm a bit late to this discussion, but I'd been curious about the title
since seeing the subject while checking my mail on my phone. I'm
assuming the hating is for the Windows version of StuffIt. As Morgan
pointed out, there's still a standalone Expander for the Mac. (I checked
the folder (StuffIt 11) recently and was surprised to see only the
expander.)

I was tempted to do the shareware Drop Stuff payment, but it's no longer
available and the Mac version of StuffIt costs more than the Windows
version now.

Cecelia

Morgan Aldridge wrote:
> Mac OS X's zip, tar, cp, etc., tools (atleast as of Tiger) do support
> resource forks, but other platforms don't know what to do with them.
> They usually get uncompressed as an OSX directory filled with ._
> files (which normally would reside alongside the regular files, if
> the forks are split) on other platforms.
>
> Also StuffIt! Expander is actually still available and free. Check
> out http://www.stuffit.com/mac/index.html and look for the free
> Expander (or go to the download page directly: http://www.stuffit.com/
> mac/expander/download.html). Also, previous versions of all the
> StuffIt! versions are available one Aladdin/Allume/SmithMicro's ftp
> site ftp://ftp.allume.com/ (note they haven't gotten around to
> changing that URL yet).
>
> Morgan Aldridge
> --
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> http://www.makkintosshu.com/
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>> On Mar 22, 2007, at 1:28 AM, Dan wrote:
>>
…
>> On all other issues, I wholeheartedly agree! .sit is dead and gone
>> thanks to their "expander" policy.

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