Talk:StuffIt

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History[edit]

Stuffit has a pretty interesting history, none of which is mentioned here. (It was the first and primary file compressor for the mac for many years, produced by Aladdin, which was eventually acquired by smith)

This article reads to me like a press release, which is a shame for such a historical and (once) loved piece of software.

Untitled[edit]

StuffIt is not Open Source. Please remove the article from the Free Software category. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.101.108.170 (talk • contribs) 15:11, 2004 September 20

Alternatives?[edit]

What alternatives, if any, exist for StuffIt? I've searched the net and have only found one Mac alternative (which is still in developement), and none for windows. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.124.53.88 (talk • contribs) 12:46, 2005 August 21

If you're on OS X, why not just use .zip, which is built in to the operating system? Just right click on a folder and choose "create archive." Or do you mean something else by "alternative" that I don't understand? Nandesuka 04:47, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Another software that has the ability to open stuffit files would be an alternative. To download a 7MB file, install the bloatware and be nagged everytime just to open a .sit file is quite annoying. Some mac fanatics think is a good thing because it supposedly "encourages" people to buy a mac, and send/publish files exclusively in this format, but to me it has the opposite effect.

Zip is a terribly outdated format (that sometimes mangles Mac files,) and the best Apple's sucktastic Archive Utility (which can't even browse, unlike the Zip utility in Windows) can muster is TBZ2. The best thing to do is just switch to Path Finder, which has Stuffit built in, can browse inside archives, and is just better than OS X's Finder in so many other ways. 72.235.10.209 (talk) 08:34, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Stuffit Icon.png[edit]

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BetacommandBot 05:09, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Stuffit for Linux: Yes, but only a very old version[edit]

I'd suggest to discuss it here. Thank you. 84.46.6.46 (talk) 00:30, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Stuffit UTI conformance?[edit]

Is the UTI conformance a typo? It says "public.date" ... did the author mean "public.data" instead? Uliwitness (talk) 16:54, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]