On Jul 29, 2004, at 7:23 PM, Joseph J. Strout wrote:
So should I just use the windows version of stuffit to change the
.bin file to a .sit file?
No, that won't work.
Why not?
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.)
Right... so if a .bin file is just "a file" then why won't stuffing it
work? The end user will obviously have two decoding steps to go
through, but it'll still get good compression and there's no need to
use a Mac.
Seth Willits
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