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Stuff Stuffit
Authored by: el bid on Apr 07, '02 05:31:50AM

As someone coming to Mac OS X from the GNU/Linux environment (and NeXTStep before that) I've always been amazed at the hold a proprietory compression utility like Stuffit has over Mac users. Compression is a "common resource", and if any kind of software belongs in the proprietory domain (does it?) this ain't it.

If the Stuffit format offered any visible advantage over zip and tgz there might be an argument for it. I assume it has some kind of resource fork handling unknown to the standard and free UNIX utilities, but where this isn't required it's probably best avoided, IMHO.

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el bid



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