Re: why .bin & StuffIt?

In article <dp3grr$cjo$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Dave Seaman <dseaman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

Actually, the .zip archive format used by Panther and later does support
resource forks via a special naming convention. So even files with
resource forks don't require StuffIt any more.

-Eric

--
Eric Albert ejalbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://outofcheese.org/
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: why .bin & StuffIt?
    ... >> Is this a patented technology? ... You'll find all kinds of archives now on Mac OS X, ... contained resource forks, which are not handled by the other ... compression/encoding methods. ...
    (comp.sys.mac.misc)
  • Re: Converting Macintosh Files
    ... standard method of storing resource forks the way Microsoft, Thursby, ... If you have a lot of data in the original Microsoft SFM ... It should not matter to Data Protection Manager, ... with characters that Mac users love ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.macintosh)
  • Re: Looking at Macs from a PC users perspective
    ... I hope I am not ignoring them... ... > to PC users any modern Mac _applications_ which are clearly superior ... I can think of PC app's which are _clearly_ superior to Mac ... > can handle resource forks or not, and if not, how I can FORCE split to ...
    (comp.sys.mac.advocacy)
  • Re: Folders Show Twice from Mac
    ... folders on this server that have dots in the names. ... The short story is that these secondary "._" files are Mac file resource ... and resource forks into one file. ... Windows relies on file name extensions such as ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.file_system)
  • Re: Red Crap Linux
    ... Regarding backing up the resource forks, ... I haven't really researched the Unix side deeply yet, ... I love Mac OS X. ... You'd think Sun would have _paid_ for a Flash port. ...
    (comp.unix.solaris)