Sit: Create Stuffit Archives on Unix Systems
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The post shares a GitHub repository for creating StuffIt archives on Unix systems.
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> The sit program was originally written in 1988 and posted to Usenet's comp.sources.mac newsgroup by Tom Bereiter. The program assumed that it was running on a Unix system where each input file either had no resource information at all, or was split into 3 binary files named with .data, .rsrc, and .info extensions.
Only 30 years late for me to discover lol