[Pythonmac-SIG] Creating MacBinary files from python

Ryan Wilcox ryanwilcox@mac.com
Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:04:24 -0500


On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 12:05 PM, Chip Brown wrote:

>I need a way to create Stuffit compatible zip files from within
>python. My experimentation indicates that a Stuffit created zip file
>is a collection of MacBinary files, zipped up.

A few weeks ago, on Apple's CarbonDev mailing list, Richard Buckle
posted a link to his MacBinary(III) command-line tool.

Perhaps you could write a python wrapper for it, or maybe even pick up
where Jack left off. ;)

Link: http://www.sailmaker.co.uk/newfiles/macbinary.sit

Hope this helps somewhat,
-Ryan Wilcox