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I'm surprised reading this thread how many people download 3rd party tools for compression. 15+ years developing on macs and I've never needed to add anything s
by demondemidi 3y ago
I'm surprised reading this thread how many people download 3rd party tools for compression. 15+ years developing on macs and I've never needed to add anything special (beyond tar/gz). Guess I don't (de)compress enough to notice?
- oddevan 3y agoIt was essential back in the Mac OS 9 / early Mac OS X days. The .sit archive was one of the only things that reliably handled the resource fork in the HFS file system, and pretty much all the freeware I downloaded back then was in .sit files. This was like... 1999 to 2005ish, so definitely feeling my "elder millennial" status.
- tpmoney 3y agoYeah, 15 years ago was still well into the OS X days (heck, it was into the iOS days). Resource forks were long gone as a concern by then, and as such stuffit didn't really bring anything unique to the table, an in some ways was worse since no other *nix user was likely to even have it.
- KerrAvon 3y agoYou’re not old enough (or came late to the Mac). Those of us who used it were on Macs 20 - 30 years ago. Gen X Mac users will be the biggest StuffIt (or Compact Pro) cohort.
- demondemidi 3y agoI missed StuffIt on both ends!! I used a MacSE in college (1987) and then started using them again professionally in 2008.
- compiler-guy 3y agoStuffit was a classic Mac OS tool, used in the original versions of the operating system. Mac OS X was released in 2001. The "Classic" environment was removed with the transition to x86 in 2006 Fifteen years ago was 2009. You never had the need because you came to the platform long after the transitions that made Stuffit--an absolute essential in the late eighties through the early 2000s--not relevant.