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Re: [PLUG] Fwd: StuffIt for Linux and Solaris
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 11:17:40AM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:05:09AM -0400, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> > Although I am sure we all know how to use tar & gzip and uuencode &
> > .... - sometimes it's nice to have a SINGLE program that can "just do
> > the right thing".
>
> This is kind of old news, no?
>
> Fwiw, this is on my list of things to install on the CS machines at
> Swarthmore College. Not for the one-stop decoding, but for the
> professors-in-other-departments-send-stupid-BinHex-attachments
> reason.
>
> (Actually, that's an unfair slur against BinHex. I prefer dealing
> with it than with uu encoding. But whatever.)
Binhex you can get around. Pkzip, for example, understands binhex and
has a way nicer license than Alladin's closed source solution
above. But .sit files are a pain, and Alladin's done a good job of
convincing Mac users that sit is the only way to go.
--
Jeff
Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>
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