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Re: stuffit WAS: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, ...



On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 20:18, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 02:54:35AM -0500, Paul Wise wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I noticed the oldworld mac discussion on DWN, and thought that you 
> > all might be interested to know that one of the compression methods for 
> > stuffit has been reverse engineered and documented. You might find that 
> > the author has source code for creating these kind of files, but that is 
> > just a guess. I don't really get why a sit compressor is needed, but this 
> > could be the path to one.
> > 
> > http://www.speakeasy.net/~russotto/arseniccomp.html
> > 
> > I hope this makes it thru, since I'm not subscribed.
> 
> Nice link, thanks. Still, unless we have a cross compiler capable of
> generating mac os code, this may not be enough.

Oh, I was under the impression that gcc would handle this, otherwise
there would be no packages availale for oldworld mac. Is this not the
case?

-- 
Bye,
Pabs



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