Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!fernwood!portal!sv!news From: leonardr@svc.portal.com (Leonard Rosenthol) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: StuffIt Deluxe Message-ID: <1990Aug29.204448.23954@svc.portal.com> Date: 29 Aug 90 20:44:48 GMT References: <1990Aug20.075638.3276@rbdc> <6257@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> <2146@ux.acs.umn.edu> Sender: news@svc.portal.com Reply-To: leonardr@svc.portal.com (Leonard Rosenthol) Organization: Software Ventures Corporation. Lines: 32 In article <2146@ux.acs.umn.edu>, clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) writes: > In article <6257@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> phssra@mathcs.emory.edu (Scott Robert Anderson) writes: > >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!'. > > The most common suffix I've seen is ".dlx". I have been known to use either > ".dlx" or ".sitd". > I responded to Scott directly, but since it could be a major issue, let me also publically post some comments. Aladdin Systems, the publishers of Stuffit Deluxe (and soon to be Stuffit Classic), are recommending that you continue to use .sit for both 1.5.1 archives as well as Deluxe/Classic archives. Some of you probably picked up on the fact that I lumped the forthcoming Stuffit Classic in the same group as Stuffit Deluxe - there is a reason for this. Stuffit Classic, the shareware successor to Stuffit 1.5.1, will use the EXACT SAME file format as Deluxe. There are a couple of reasons for this - 1) The Deluxe format is both more flexible and more expandable for future enhancments, 2) The Deluxe format allows for navigation into the subheirarcies of an archive and 3) There is only ONE format out there. The only problem, that I can see, with the new file format is that it is proprietary which means that it will more difficult to write 'Unstuffers' for other platforms - though Aladdin has offered to work with developers on such projects! Leonard Rosenthol Aladdin Representative!?!? -- Leonard Rosenthol Software Ventures Corp. MicroPhone II Development Team