Re: How to create stuffit files on Linux?

2005-03-20 Thread Greg Ewing
Leif K-Brooks wrote: Noah wrote: The problem is that my users want to see .sit files. I know it's sort of silly. Zip files are foreign and frightening to them. Would Stuffit open zip files renamed to .sit? Yes! I just tried it, and it works. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Cante

Re: How to create stuffit files on Linux?

2005-03-19 Thread Leif K-Brooks
Noah wrote: The problem is that my users want to see .sit files. I know it's sort of silly. Zip files are foreign and frightening to them. Would Stuffit open zip files renamed to .sit? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to create stuffit files on Linux?

2005-03-16 Thread James Stroud
Your users are, what me might call, "ignorant luddites". The built in 'File->Create Archive' command produces a zip file in OSX. I propose that zip is indeed the native compressed format. Perhaps you should install OS 7.5 on their machines (c. 1993) to make them feel more comfortable. James O

Re: How to create stuffit files on Linux?

2005-03-16 Thread Noah
The problem is that my users want to see .sit files. I know it's sort of silly. Zip files are foreign and frightening to them. I mentioned zip files, but they didn't want to deal with them. Is there a native OS X archive or package format? Obviously it must have tar and gzip installed, but I wonde

Re: How to create stuffit files on Linux?

2005-03-15 Thread Simon Percivall
Stuffit Expander can handle zip, rar, tar, gz, etc, etc, etc. Don't worry. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

How to create stuffit files on Linux?

2005-03-15 Thread Noah
I need to create Stuffit (.sit) files on Linux. Does anyone have any ideas for how to do this? I checked the Python docs and on SourceForge, but I didn't see any open source stuffit compatible libraries. Are my Mac users out of luck? Yours, Noah -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-

RE: How to create stuffit files on Linux?

2005-03-15 Thread bruce
site, or use google to get a better feel for what it provdes.. -bruce -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Noah Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 2:03 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: How to create stuffit files on Linux? I need to create St