.png)
2 hours ago
1
Create StuffIt archives on Unix systems
Summary
sit is a command-line tool that can create StuffIt 1.5.1-compatible archives containing files or folders. Resource forks and metadata are preserved, and the resulting archive can be extracted with StuffIt or StuffIt Expander on a classic Mac OS system. Run the tool in Terminal with no arguments to see its options.
Introduction
The sit program was originally written in 1988 and posted to Usenet's comp.sources.mac newsgroup by Tom Bereiter. The program assumed that it was running on a Unix system where each input file either had no resource information at all, or was split into 3 binary files named with .data, .rsrc, and .info extensions.
This modern update of sit takes into account the fact that macOS has been a Unix system since 2001, and that input files may have resource forks. The program has been enhanced to accept either files or directories as input, and will archive the contents of directories recursively.
Usage
Creates a StuffIt 1.5.1-compatible archive from one or more files (or folders) specified as arguments. The default output file is "archive.sit" if the -o option is not provided. Use -v, -vv, or -vvv to see increasingly verbose output.
Files without a resource fork are assigned the default type TEXT and creator KAHL, identifying them as a text file created by THINK C. You can override the default type and creator with the -T and -C options.
The -u option converts all linefeeds ('\n') to carriage returns ('\r'). This is really only useful when archiving plain Unix text files which you intend to open in a classic Mac application like SimpleText or MacWrite. In general, you should avoid this option, especially if you are archiving other types of documents or applications.
Examples
Limitations
Unlike the original sit, this program does not currently compress data. Its purpose is simply to create a portable container that can be safely transferred from a modern system to a classic Mac computer or emulator.
This software may contain bugs. Use at your own risk.
Building
This is a bare-bones "C" command-line tool. With Xcode's CLTools support installed, you should be able to build the tool by typing make while the sit directory is the current directory.
