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- This shar file contains the source to "sit" a UNIX utility which produces
- Stuffit archives for downloading to the mac. As a bonus I've also included
- "macbinfilt", a filter which takes articles from comp.binaries.mac, puts the
- parts in the correct order, and throws out all the "noise" lines.
-
- To use the sit code you need the getopt(3) library routine and the compress(1)
- utility, both of which most everyone seems to have by now.
-
- There is not much original code here: everything is reverse engineered from
- the unsit utility by Alan Weber. The updcrc.c file is exactly the same file
- from the unsit package.
-
- I've tested the code on both BSD and SYSV machines. Both machines were big
- endian so byte order problems may still be lurking.
-
- When you transfer archives to your mac be sure to use "binary" mode. In
- order for Suffit to recognize your downloaded file it must have a type of
- "SIT!". If your communication program doesn't allow you to specify the type
- you'll need to ResEdit it in. It should be quite simple to modify sit.c
- to put a MacBinary header on the archive.
-
- As with everything in the modern world: use at your own risk.
-
- --Tom Bereiter
- ..!{rutgers,ames}!cs.utexas.edu!halley!rolex!twb
-