Opening .sitx files under Linux

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Opening .sitx files under Linux

Is it possible?

encyclo

5:43 pm on Apr 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

I've got a client who uses Macs (OS9 and earlier) in his office environment. He's just sent me a bunch of StuffIt compressed achives with the extension .sitx. I phoned and mentioned zip but I got the telephone equivalent of a blank stare.

Is there any chance of me being able to open these archives under Linux, or will I have to drive over to the guy's office and get him to burn everything to a CD? I'm running Ubuntu 5.04 Hoary on AMD64, so something that can compile nicely (or at least run) in a 64-bit environment would be good too! I tried the free Unix-version expander from the StuffIt site but it was unable to open the archive.

jatar_k

5:48 pm on Apr 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

what about this [google.com]

encyclo

5:55 pm on Apr 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

Thanks jatar_k. As I said, the free *nix version of StuffIt Expander can't open the file: it supports the older .sit format, but apparently not the newer .sitx one. I was hoping that someone had reverse-engineered something which would open the newer archive files.

bcolflesh

5:56 pm on Apr 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

The last time I used Stuffit on Mac, it could export Windows formatted .zip files, it just wasn't the default - maybe you can walk the guy through it.

StupidScript

8:02 pm on Apr 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

Perhaps it would be easier to walk your source through creating a self-extracting or "normal" StuffIt archive, rather than trying to explain what .ZIP is?

The .SITX format looks to be a choice offered by StuffIt, as bcolflesh said.

I find it funny that Mac and Windows users can get the expander program for free, but Linux users get a free trial, then need to pay US$30 to keep it going. There's no expander stand-alone for Linux.

encyclo

8:39 pm on Apr 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

I just got back from a difficult 20-minute phone call with the client, where we worked out together how to make the program create a .tgz instead of a .sitx. I can now open the file!

The StuffIt expander for *nix appears to only open files that were produced before about 1983 - rather useless as you might guess, and as it is a proprietary program and algo there is no alternative to the "official" build. You have to download the whole package, but if you only use the "unstuff" script there's no registration process that I'm aware of. I've deleted the thing anyway: don't want no closed-source junk on my machine!

Thanks for everyone's help!