Re: why .bin & StuffIt?

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 05:07:35 -0800, Brian Hughes wrote:
> In article <1135945506.162456.201630@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> "Ryo" <furufuru@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Is this a patented technology? Why do people use this particular
>> archive format while there are .zip, .gz, & bz2 archivers available
>> free of charge?

> I don't know if MacBinary is patented but both MacBinary and StuffIt are
> falling out of favor anyway but both were very popular in the pre-OS X
> days. You'll find all kinds of archives now on Mac OS X, the ones you
> mentioned as well as others. Mac OS X can create and unarchive .zip,
> .gz, and .bz2 with its built-in software.

MacBinary and BinHex were needed in the days when Mac files frequently
contained resource forks, which are not handled by the other
compression/encoding methods. Now that resource forks are deprecated,
those other methods have taken over for new applications.


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