[PLUG] Extract stuffit?

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Tue Oct 23 08:01:02 UTC 2007


On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:55:18 -0700
Brent Rieck <bsr at spek.org> dijo:

> John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > Ubuntu Gutsy amd64
> > 
> > Archive Manager (I think it's file-roller with an Ubuntu label on it)
> > says the .sit format is not supported. I know .sit is a Mac thing, but
> > surely Linux has a way to extract it, right?
> 
> Not a really great way I think, particularly now that macs do zip 
> natively.  You can download a trial of the official stuff/unstuff for 
> linux from the maker though:
> ftp://ftp.allume.com/pub/archive/linux/StuffIt/stuffit520.611linux-i386.tgz
> 
> I believe you must pay for stuff but unstuff is free of cost, both seem 
> to run on my gutsy amd64 machine.

Thanks. I couldn't find it at all, but now that I see it is proprietary
I'll just tell the person to resend the file in a different format.
This is a case where they want something from me, not the other way
around. 



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