Re: [OT] Standard OS X Compression format
Re: [OT] Standard OS X Compression format
- Subject: Re: [OT] Standard OS X Compression format
- From: "Philippe Mougin" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 19:22:53 +0100
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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 00:01:15 -0500
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Subject: Re: [OT] Standard OS X Compression format
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Cc: email@hidden
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To: Steve Gehrman <email@hidden>
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From: Brendan Younger <email@hidden>
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Stuffit, for those who are coming from non-Mac backgrounds,
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started as (I believe) a high schooler's pet project and has morphed
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into the de-facto encoding/decoding standard. Aladdin has done a great
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service by providing a clean, fast, and free decoder for almost any type
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of file encoding you're likely to find.
I've found Stuffit to be badly broken on OSX (don't know about the OS 9
version). It took one year to fix some of the problems. And the version
shipped with OS X 10.1 is still unable to decompress correctly TAR files
which includes files with long names (about 30 characters) !
Phil