Re: BootX and the Stuffit Fiasco.
Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> because the self extracting archive in and of itself must be encoded
> since the MacOS uses a exectuable format that cannot survive on
> anything but the HFS filesystem. since its encoded you need stuffit
> expander to extract the self extracting archive.
What about the apple single format? IIRC, it includes the Res fork that MacOS
needs to execute. Is MacOS able to execute these files, or does it have to be
converted to appledouble format first?
> IMO BootX should be recursivly MacBinarized, then put into a .tar.gz
> archive. then any version of stuffit can extract it, along with Free
> tools available for MacOS.
>
What are the obstacles to do this?
> --
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
>
Mike
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