How to create stuffit files on Linux?
James Stroud
jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu
Wed Mar 16 22:46:53 EST 2005
Your users are, what me might call, "ignorant luddites".
The built in 'File->Create Archive' command produces a zip file in OSX. I
propose that zip is indeed the native compressed format. Perhaps you should
install OS 7.5 on their machines (c. 1993) to make them feel more
comfortable.
James
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 07:21 pm, Noah wrote:
> The problem is that my users want to see .sit files.
> I know it's sort of silly. Zip files are foreign and frightening to
> them.
> I mentioned zip files, but they didn't want to deal with them.
>
> Is there a native OS X archive or package format?
> Obviously it must have tar and gzip installed, but I wonder
> how a *.tgz file would appear on the desktop or how the
> GUI would handle it.
>
> Yours,
> Noah
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