On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:39:30AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > BinHex encoded MacBinary format files _can_ be created with hfsutils. If > you want more, write a free StuffIf arrchiver for Linux. good luck, Aladdin REFUSES to document the stuffit format, and will not allow anyone to write a alternate extractor for it. when MindVision finally reverse engineered the stuffit 4 format and made thier gratis (but proprietary) MindExpander that extracted stuffit 4 archives aladdin released stuffit 5 with a new non-backward compatbile fileformat that won't create stuffit 4 archives. they have very effectively forced people to change to the new proprietary format that ONLY stuffit tools can understand. this company is worse then Microsoft. I believe no Free software project (for MacOS) should be encoded into this evil file format. > Disclaimer: Just MHO. I don't do boot-floppies on PPC (nor any > others anymore). Maybe the PPC people see things differently and will take > the pains to add a manual step to the procedure. far better would be to encode BootX into an Open format outside of debian and let them include that. Maybe ill make an Open BootX archive before i nuke MOL. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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