[conspire] possible new and functional unstuffit for linux

[Eric De Mund]

Rick, All,

There may be a modern version of unstuff(1) for linux, necessitating an
update of your "StuffIt Archives" page.

I had need to UnStuffIt a .sit archive on my Debian 4.0 system the other
day, and went in search of a linux version. I was coming up empty, and
even came across your article at:

    StuffIt Archives
    http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Apps/stuffit-archives.html

    Short version: If you want to open a StuffIt (.sit) archive on
    Linux, you're out of luck, because none of the tools can deal with
    recent StuffIt compression methods.

However, the unstuff(1) I came across here (skip the entry of all
demographics in STEP 1 and in STEP 2 simply select the "English (Linux)"
choice and click the "[ Proceed to Download Now ]" button):

    http://www.stuffit.com/cgi-bin/stuffit_loginpage.cgi?stuffitunix

Or just download either of these files directly:

    http://www.stuffit.com/downloads/files/stuffit520.611linux-i386.tar.gz
    ftp://ftp.allume.com/pub/archive/linux/StuffIt/stuffit520.611linux-i386.tgz

did the trick just fine. Nothing needs to be "installed", and the
executables appear to be from June 2001. Not having a working Macintosh
version of StuffIt, and also not being up on StuffIt's compression
methods, I can't speak to whether or not this version "can deal with
recent StuffIt compression methods".

But it sure does seem like it can. If anyone sends me a Macintosh .sit
file created with StuffIt version 11 or 12, I will happily test this
linux unstuff(1) on it.

Info forwarded FYI,
Eric
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