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I could be remembering wrong, but didn't later versions of stuffit compress to a .sit file that had no resource fork, so it would stay fully-intact on any files
by amatecha 3y ago
I could be remembering wrong, but didn't later versions of stuffit compress to a .sit file that had no resource fork, so it would stay fully-intact on any filesystem? I may be imagining that, but I remember hitting a certain version where "copying to Windows" would no longer ruin my .sit files... haha
- LeoPanthera 3y agoIt's been a long time, but I don't think that's exactly true. The resource fork simply became optional, assisted by later versions of MacOS, which let applications open files which didn't have one.
- amatecha 3y agoAhh hmm OK, I'll have to check into this some time. I feel like the filesize would stay the same (suggesting no loss of data), but it's totally possible I'm misremembering considering how long it has been, hahah :)
- LeoPanthera 3y agoIt's quite plausible that the "file size" simply didn't include the resource fork.
- EkriirkE 3y agoI don't remember there ever being a resource fork, but I Think around v4 it started allowing you to drag-n-drop any file to decompress, ignoring the missing/required finder info from previous versions