[ILUG] otish: making a .sit on unix

[Justin Mason]

"Gary Mc Closkey" said:

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> Stuffit is a commercial format from Alladin Systems, and the company
> doesn't provide details on it. It does provide free windows and mac
> decoders, though no free encoders.
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> Unless your script is on the large side, you may just want to
> /binhex/ the file - i.e. the mac equivalent of uuencode. This also
> take care of the dual-forking issue. Even better there's a *nix
> package called macutils that has binhex encoders and decoders.

Ah, I'll leave it -- apparently zip is easy enough for them to handle so
zip it is.  Can't believe a commercial compression fmt is *still* the
de-facto Mac standard...

(It's a *very* large script BTW, or at least it is when the required
packages (LWP, HTML::Parser etc.) are included, so I do pretty much need
to compress it somehow.)

Thanks for the help,

--j.