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Re: Windows IDE to build for Mac

To: ascii at 1st dot net, Getting Started <gettingstarted at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: Windows IDE to build for Mac
From: "Joseph J. Strout" <joe at realsoftware dot com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:23:23 -0500
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At 8:21 PM -0400 7/29/04, Jay Rimalrick wrote:

Yes, the file size is important to me.  I want it to be as small as possible.

Then you should repack it on a Mac into StuffIt (.sit) format.

So should I just use the windows version of stuffit to change the .bin file to a .sit file?

No, that won't work.

  What kind of compression difference can I expect?

Quite large. (MacBinary -- .bin -- is not a compression format; it's just a wrapper for two-fork files and metadata and is in fact larger than the original file.)

Best,
- Joe

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