On 3/24/06 8:45 PM, Bellwether deftly typed out: >> I don't see any reason to use Stuffit. > > Because binhex (.hqx) is the only encoding method to protect file > types/reource forks; .zip and .sit are just compression, without encoding. > > How can we binhex without Stuffit? Is there another utility that will do > this?
There's no need to BinHex anymore (or MacBinary for that matter). Both StuffIt and BOMArchiveHelper (The app that handles the ZIPing in OS X) create archives that preserve the file's resource forks and metadata. The archives themselves don't need any encoding either because they don't have resource forks (StuffIt archives haven't had a resource fork in *at least* five years). -Remo Del Bello -- "Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover." - Homer Simpson -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
