Re: [gentoo-user] Re: stuffit does not recognise .sitx

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2009-03-17, Mick <michaelkintzios@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

:-)  :-)