On Jan 25, 2007, at 8:47 PM, Garry wrote:
I have Stuffit Expander 7.03 with a date of 3/03 on my machine with X.4.5.
Huh... then maybe they were still bundling it later than I thought. I know it did not come on my mini or eMac, both of which shipped with 10.4.x. I am also pretty sure my developer copy of 10.4 does not have it (and I believe the developer copies are the same as the retail copies).
I was checking on the prefs for my version of Stuffit and next to the .sea check box(make file a self extracting archive) it says it is platform independent. I quote "This creates a self extracting archive that anyone can unstuff without a Stuffit product."
well, it can be used on any Mac that doesn't have Stuffit (or any mac that can run that SEA, chances are that means anything from System 7 or later, as I'd be surprised if it ran under System 7 and earlier, although it might).
If they explicitly say it is "platform independent" then they lie. Even if they rolled the PC binary executable code into the same file (which I'm sure they are not), it still would not run on Windows with the sea extension. It would need to be an EXE extension. I'm fairly sure Stuffit Deluxe offers in their SEA creation the choice of making it Mac or Windows executable.
Us regular folks we control click to access zip archive feature under X & unfortunately no password protection. and like Tom Petty sings "I'm a night watchman. I love securrrrrity" twang twang.
Zip archives do support password protection to unzip them. Apple's control-click access to the zip creation however as you found does not offer access to that ability. I just looked at the quick help for the command line access to Zip, and I don't see an option in it for passwords either, so it is possible there is no password ability in the BOMZip application at all.
But the Zip format does indeed support passwords, and there are other zip utilities available for OS X, one of them may have it (in fact, Stuffit may offer it as part of its Zip creation, as Stuffit will happily make zip files).
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