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From: km@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Stuffit file extractor program for Unix posted
Message-ID: <1051@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Date: 5 Mar 88 13:35:12 GMT
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Reply-To: km@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Ken Mitchum)
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In article <530@psu-cs.UUCP> hoofb@psu-cs.UUCP (Bruce Hoof) writes:
>YES!!!  It would be nice to have a Unix utility to .sit a file that we
>could unstuff on our Mac.  I have often had the trouble of uploading
>many files from my Mac to the vax and the same goes the other way.  This
>would save many keystrokes and minutes, not to mention frustration!!!
>This utility would especially be useful with seperate compilation.

There already is a "tar" available for the mac, which works uses the same
formats as the "tar" on Unix systems, and can be used to archive entire
directories and subdirectories. It will work only with text files, however.
It is much faster than Stuffit, as there is no file compaction - extracting
a 1mb tar file of 60 - 70 files and two directories takes about 45 seconds
on a MacII.