Comments on: Take This .sit and Stuff It

By: philip

philip — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 02:20:32 +0000

Well, a client just gave me a file with a sitx extension and it’s been hell trying to unpack this beast. In fact, it angers me deeply that such a proprietary compression type is used and exists. I’m having a Mac friend unpack it for me. Yes, I use Windows. Just felt like venting…

By: aManCalledSun

aManCalledSun — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:23:33 +0000

Stuffit 10 is absolute garbage. I could put up with all the crap with Stuffit 9 because it actually works, but the “Free” upgrade to 10 killed all hope of extracting .sit files on my powerbook. Thankfully a little digging and I was able to find an installer for 9.0.2:

http://www.macupdate.com/download.php/6326/StuffItSTD902.dmg

Allume has pulled all traces of Stuffit 9 off their web and ftp sites.

By: lyric

lyric — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 21:17:19 +0000

Stuffit “Deluxe” is even worse than the standard – NO I do not want to browse directories of compressed folders, NO I do not want to drag and drop files, open close windows or specify locations. I just want to compress, uncompress without having to think about it. “Deluxe” is an utter waste of cash. BTW, I’m sure I didn’t have to reinstall stuffit when I upgraded to Tiger…

By: BSD Rules

BSD Rules — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 00:24:25 +0000

Oh, the irony.

At the bottom of the page is an ad for… …Stuffit Deluxe!!!

The basic point, which has already been made by a lot of people, is that an open standard is ALWAYS preferable to a proprietary solution. Thank Apple, or possibly FreeBSD, for providing us with a plethora of compression tools. Too bad bzip2 isn’t aware of Mac specifics.

By: Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 00:43:51 +0000

Please re write this column every day until people get it.

Allume is a piece of poop company. If you think having to provide a e-mail address is bad know this: Windows users have to provide a valid creit card number to download the ‘free Stuffit expander.

By: a Linux user

a Linux user — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:20:26 +0000

Thanks for writing this! I had the misfortune of having to port Mac OS 9 fonts from an OS X machine to a Linux machine running VMWare. (Don’t ask…it’s a FrameMaker thing.)

I followed the usual advice and got Stuffit for the PC and the Mac. Navigating their site was like wading through slime.

It was completely unnecessary. You can simply make a ZIP archive in the Finder. It contains the resource fork, and no slime is needed on the origin or destination machine.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:58:54 +0000

Hate it…StuffIt wastes my time…I don’t have time to waste…I just have time to enter “expand sit files without stuffit” into Google and stumble upon a spot-on article by someone who also hates it.
Hate it.

By: Nat

Nat — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 19:43:38 +0000

If you’re getting this bent out of shape by random weblogs you stumble across saying unkind things about your favorite operating system, you might consider therapy.

Just a thought.

By: Penginkun

Penginkun — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:42:17 +0000

“So unless you’re targeting your application for Mac OS 9 (in which case I hate you),”

Wow. Just…wow. What an asshole. You HATE people who are still developing for MacOS 9? What must you feel for people who still USE MacOS 9?

You might want to tone down the rhetoric there, Bucky. Sheesh.

By: dr_dog

dr_dog — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 02:26:41 +0000

StuffIt version 6 for Windows worked pretty well. It actually did its job with a minimum of fuss, and opened some obscure Mac archive formats that nothing else would touch.
But version 9 can go to hell. I’m never installing another Aladdin/Allume product again.