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StuffitExpander and ZIP files.
Authored by: DavidRavenMoon on Apr 06, '02 03:47:44PM

I had a similar problem with Expander once. Now I use Magic Menu (part of StuffitDeluxe) instead. In the Magic Menu prefs there is a setting under the Cross Platform tab that says: "Prefer Unix utilities over Stuffit Engine when possible." This claims to use the OS X command line tools for the creation and decoding of tar, zip, Unix Compress (.Z) GZip, and Unix Encode (.UU) files.

It states this will preserve long file names but destroy any Mac-specific information (i.e. resource forks)

I would have used the Terminal, but didn't know the commands, so this might help others who have StuffitDeluxe installed.



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gnutar and .tbz .tgz
Authored by: WillyT on Apr 07, '02 01:24:14AM

If I have ANY trouble with a tarball that Stuffit has touched I put it in my home directory first and gnutar -xzfv tarballname. If this doesn't work (ie its a binary for OS X or it needs installed in root) then I move it to / and sudo gnutar -xzfv tarballname.
Very good for installing man pages that want to go in X11.



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