On Jan 15, 2009, at 8:17 AM, Dan wrote:
> At 7:42 AM -0700 1/15/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>> On Jan 15, 2009, at 7:28 AM, Dan wrote:
>>
>>> hum. This is now the 5th or 6th problem I've seen with StuffIt over
>>> the past month or so. It offers no real functionality. I'm
>>> thinking
>>> it's jumped the shark and should now be classified as evilware. Get
>>> it off your machine.
>>
>> The problem is that some manufacturers ("I'm looking at YOU Canon and
>> Xerox!") still insist on putting their drivers into .sit files. That
>> was why I had to install the thing on mine.
>
> So you needed the freeware StuffIt Expander product. Not the full
> commercial StuffIt Deluxe - which includes those xtra parts that
> cause these problems.
Yep, the "freeware" Stuffit Expander, which is installed by installing
the trial version of Stuffit Deluxe. :-(
But answering your comment prompted me to wonder if there was an OSS
utiltiy to do this, and I found this :
<http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html
>
Cool. I LOVE OS X. Free software everywhere.
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
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