drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen) (07/26/89)
cooper@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM (Ken Cooper) writes: >Well, it may be that the downloaded file you get after de-binhexing >has a .SIT suffix. If this is so, you've now got a stuffit archive. >Stuffit is a PD (at least, the extraction portion is) package that >allows you to archive a group of files together, compressed. To >unstuff a file, you need to get a copy of stuffit, which I think is >available via anonymous ftp from sumex.stanford.edu. This continued misperception concerning StuffIt needs to be eliminated. As of version 1.4, Raymond started including a freeware (not PD, but free) utility called UnStuffIt for extracting files from StuffIt archives. At that point, the StuffIt application became exclusively shareware and the documentation was changed to reflect this fact. If you are using StuffIt 1.40 or later (1.5.1 being the current version, with folder archiving) then you should either send Raymond the shareware fee or cease using it and get the UnStuffIt utility, also available at sumex-aim.stanford.edu and other archive sites, CompuServe, GEnie, Delphi, etc. Raymond has been one of the very few successful shareware authors and has been even more supportive of his users than most commercial houses (witness the smaller, free, dearchiving utility), but even so he has, if the people I've come in contact with are any indication, been paid by only a small portion of his user base. Many decry the departure of shareware authors -- how can it be otherwise when the vast majority of the users DO NOT PAY (even though they claim that they intend to do so)?