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From: phssra@mathcs.emory.edu (Scott Robert Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: StuffIt Deluxe
Message-ID: <6257@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Date: 28 Aug 90 02:37:16 GMT
References: <1990Aug20.075638.3276@rbdc> <Ng60N3w162w@tosh.UUCP>
Organization: Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta
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In article <Ng60N3w162w@tosh.UUCP> starta@tosh.UUCP (John Starta) writes:
>ramsey@rbdc (Ramsey Dow) writes:
>
>> I've recently switched from StuffIt to Compactor.  I really enjoy the
>> added compression savings and speed increase.  But I have a question:
>> what is the proper suffix for a Compactor archive?
>
>The proper suffix is ".cpt" (without the quotes, of course), this is
>according to the author.
>
>John

This is a contraction of the Macintosh file type 'CPCT'.

Now, my question: what suffix are the online services using for StuffIt Deluxe
files?  They have a Mac file type of 'SITD', as opposed to the StuffIt Classic
file type 'SIT!'.

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