[Pythonmac-SIG] Creating MacBinary files from python

Just van Rossum just@letterror.com
Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:13:56 +0100


Neil Mayhew wrote:

> on 05/12/2002 1:05 PM, Chip Brown at chip@adobe.com wrote:
> 
> > My experimentation indicates that a Stuffit created zip file is a collection
> > of MacBinary files, zipped up.
> 
> I think StuffIt uses a different compression algorithm from Zip.

For .sit files, yes, but it can create regular .zip files, too (see eg. the
DropZip droplet).

Just