Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-03-17, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+.sitx >>> http://my.smithmicro.com/unix/stuffit/index.html >>> >> Thank you, I have seen this and emerged stuffit (I had to >> manually download the source file). However, trying to run it >> on a .sitx file fails as shown above - hence I am asking if I >> am missing something here, or if there is an alternative that >> will work from Gentoo. >> > > According to the articles googe found, the free version of the > unpacker for Linux doesn't support the .sitx format. Seems > like a big-ole "FU" from smithmicro to the Linux community if > you ask me. > > If the trail version of the non-free stuffit from smithmicro > doesn't support it, then I doubt anything else will. It's a > format that the sutffit guys invented. What the world needs > most, after all, is one more proprietary archive format. > > I'd tell your friend that stuffit is evil and he should use > somethign else. > >
Depending on your friends sense of humor, maybe even tell him to "stuff it". LOL :-D Dale :-) :-)
