Re: why .bin & StuffIt?
- From: Doc O'Leary <droleary.usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:32:06 -0600
In article <1135945506.162456.201630@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Ryo" <furufuru@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm quite new to Mac. Recently I donwloaded a ".bin" file
> and was surprised that you need a non-free piece of additional
> software to use it. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.) I was
> referred to a program called StuffIt.
What you downloaded with either a very old program or done by a
developer who does very old thinking. Apple doesn't even include
StuffIt anymore starting with 10.4, so every developer in their right
mind has moved on to a common compressor like you mention, or uses .dmg
files.
> Is this a patented technology? Why do people use this particular
> archive format while there are .zip, .gz, & bz2 archivers available
> free of charge?
StuffIt is definitely proprietary, though the older file formats often
are not. My guess is that people still use it out of nostalgia, since
..sit was pretty much the "it" format in the end days of OS 9. As I have
pointed out in other threads on the same topic, .bz2 even usually offers
superior compression, so there really isn't much of a case to be made
for StuffIt any longer. I suggest you contact the source of that .bin
and tell them to make their stuff Tiger-friendly.
.
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