NIBBLING HELL GOAT  This is a truly dreadful piece of software that would have been dead and forgotten by now were it not for the proprietary compression scheme.

Stuffit got a foot in the door in the Classic Mac era, when cross-platform interoperability was less of a concern. These days I can only imagine the people that distribute files in .sit format are those who paid for Stuffit in good faith and would rather not feel like they'd wasted money. And so for the minority of developers who aren't using .dmgs or standard zip files, most users have the expander installed.

None of this would be a problem if the expander actually worked. Rather, the typical behaviour is that a crudely designed progress window pops up, informs the user that the operation will take several million hours to complete (if only I were exaggerating), then closes, leaving behind a directory which should contain the archived files, but doesn't.

And I've heard the "it's Tiger" argument, but Tiger is almost two years old now, and the fundamentals of file creation were not changed so drastically with 10.4 as to cause this kind of behaviour. It's bad programming, period.

With the news of free unarchivers that will handle Stuffit archives with a better degree of reliability than the official tool, perhaps we can lay this to rest finally, and keep it as one of those fond Yesteryear memories - along with System 7, CD caddies and the Happy Mac.  
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