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Use Command-S to create Stuffit archives
Authored by: DavidRavenMoon on Dec 20, '04 04:09:45PM

And Command-U unstuffs a file. I use this every day. You can choose to zip instead of stuff (Command-Option 3), but why exactly would you want to do that? It has no benefits over Stuffing.

The Stuffit version of Zip is exactly the same as on a PC. If you are dealing with some Mac files that have resource forks, such as PostScript fonts, or even application or plugin bundles, then the act of zipping them will render them useless, as it strips off the resource fork, and makes bundles into folders. There was a thread on this at MacinTouch just recently.

Apple's version of Zip, which is located under the File menu (Create Archive) works with forked files, but only if you use the built in unzipping (BOMArchiveHelper) and not Stuffit, to unzip them, and then only on Panther.

Personally I use Apple's Zip for unzipping all zip files, but for general archiving I use Stuffit's SitX format. It's smaller than zip files and works with all Mac files.

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G4/466, 1 GB, Mac OS X 10.3.7



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All Mac files?
Authored by: _merlin on Dec 20, '04 04:51:48PM

The Stuffit SitX format will not save permissions properly. Everything seems to come out with rwxr-xr-x after unstuffing it. Also, it won't handle HFS+ arbitrary named forks (although no archiving tool seems to handle this).



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