On 30/11/99 Alberto Maurizi wrote:
Does anybody know how to "unstuff" MacIntosh archives
under Linux? (i.e., a replacement for StuffIt Expander).
no such thing, stuffit is a very proprietary file format and aladdin
has refused numerous requests for specs on it so that a decompressor
could be made (for Rhapsody/MacOSX/OpenStep)
if its stuffit 4 format I would suggest asking the MindVision people
(made MindExpander which handles stuffit 4 but not 5 archives) to
release their code/information to the public so other expanders can
be made, as far as I can tell they reverse engineered the file format
and made an expander (if they had a licence there would be aladdin
spam all over the software and it would support version 5 i would
think) I have asked them several times if they would consider open
sourcing thier expander but have not received anything more then form
responses.
if you want a compatible format I suggest you use a combination of
macbinary and gzip (macbinary can be decoded from linux using
utilities from netatalk i think, assuming they work heh heh)
there are many free macbinary encoding utilities, or if you don't
need all the macos specific metadata just use tar.gz
just a sidenote I did find some very old code for some un*x that
supported creating and extracting of stuffit 1.5.1 archives but my
testing showed that it did a better job of creating corrupted
archives and extracting corrupted files. and i doubt this would be
of much use since i have not seen a stuffit 1.5.1 archive in years.
sorry for the rantish post this topic is a bit of a thorn for me :|
Ethan Benson
To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/
