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I might be wrong but I remember that I couldn't extract some really old Stuffit archives using the current versions, but an old copy of 'stuffit520.611linux-i38
by jval43 3y ago
I might be wrong but I remember that I couldn't extract some really old Stuffit archives using the current versions, but an old copy of 'stuffit520.611linux-i386' I tracked down could.
Does anyone know if that makes sense? Did the format ever change?
- LeoPanthera 3y agoYes it did. "Sit" is the classic format, and "Sitx" is the modern format. From Wikipedia: "[Stuffit X] was designed to be extendable, support more compression methods, support long file names, and support Unix and Windows file attributes. StuffIt X improves over the original StuffIt format and its descendants by adding multiple compression algorithms such as PPM, and BWT to LZW-type compression. It also added a "block mode" option, error correcting "redundancy" options to protect against data loss, and several encryption options. In January 2005, JPEG compression was added as a StuffIt X compression option" Unlike the original Stuffit format, Stuffit X never saw any significant use, since Mac OS X had switched to Zip as its default archive format.
- duskwuff 3y agoThere were a number of internal variants of the original SIT format. Some of the really early ones are poorly supported by some tools.