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Authored by: kyngchaos on Apr 02, '02 11:35:48AM

I'd be careful. I had a very bad experience with StuffIt and RARs - trying OS X.04 and StuffIt for OSX (v6.0?) completely hosed my drive. I think it had problems with the long file names inside the RAR. May be better now, but I'll never try it again.

Even now (v6.5) StuffIt can't do long file names, even for Stuffed archives. Until Aladdin gets with it I'll leave StuffIt for stuffing and binhexing and other dedicated utilities (even CLI) for everything else - Rosetta, unrar, tar, gzip, ZipIt. There's even a GUI front end for much of this - OpenUp (have yet to try it).

Not sure what version of RAR StuffIt can handle, but my guess would be v2.5, possibly v2.9 (which can actually unrar v3.0 files)



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