[HN Gopher] Sit - Create StuffIt archives on Unix systems
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Sit - Create StuffIt archives on Unix systems
Author : classichasclass
Score : 55 points
Date : 2025-11-17 02:28 UTC (6 days ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| pabs3 wrote:
| Hmm, doesn't have a license.
| jbverschoor wrote:
| Wow. Only 30 years late
| eesmith wrote:
| ???
|
| > The sit program was originally written in 1988 and posted to
| Usenet's comp.sources.mac newsgroup by Tom Bereiter. The
| program assumed that it was running on a Unix system where each
| input file either had no resource information at all, or was
| split into 3 binary files named with .data, .rsrc, and .info
| extensions.
| jbverschoor wrote:
| O :)
|
| Only 30 years late for me to discover lol
| mrweasel wrote:
| I love these "rediscoveries" of old code. Often I struggle to
| comprehend a lot of modern code, and while these older tools can
| be a little terse they are normally simple enough that I can
| reason about and modify the code.
|
| Sometimes I wonder if it's due to the older code being produced
| with the mentality of "Look here something I hacked together, it
| sort of works." and people where happy about it because it was
| better than nothing, and you felt no right to demand anything of
| the author. If you wanted something changed the social contract
| was that you'd be the one to do the work, even if it meant
| learning e.g. C, not learning to open an entitled issue on
| Github.
| ok123456 wrote:
| Aladin did make a commercial linux version of StuffIt Expander.
| It was free to use to expand, but to create archives it needed a
| registration code iirc.
|
| Edit: found it
| http://web.archive.org/web/20060205025441/http://www.stuffit...
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