[Krypton]

Stuffit Expander is slow and complete crud - so what are the alternatives?

I found:

Pack Up and Go (Stone Design)

Open Up

Both are much faster (and Cocoa), but aren't able to open the products of decompression - e.g. disk images.

Anyone have any ideas/suggestions?

[madmacgames]

Originally posted by Krypton:
Both are much faster (and Cocoa), but aren't able to open the products of decompression - e.g. disk images.

Anyone have any ideas/suggestions?

Um.. it is Finder that opens disk images. Stuffit just supports automatically having Finder mount them. Just double click on the decompressed image file?

[Krypton]

Originally posted by madmacgames:
Um.. it is Finder that opens disk images. Stuffit just supports automatically having Finder mount them. Just double click on the decompressed image file?

Sorry, that's what I meant -> that stuffit can tell the Finder to open up a disk image.

[yukon]

I've been looking myself. There doesn't seem much better than the command line utility. I've tried utilities freetar, tarpit, droptarbz (AFAIR), and most of them had fatal errors....the drop program would only work on bzip, not gzip, or tar...freetar would often get errors, silently, and write corrupted/unfinished files....tarpit would get errors, would say it did but not why, I assume it ran out of temporary space though it shouldn't have.

All I can say is try the command line utilities. the command "tar" is all you need, it can gzip and bzip2 files by using the z and j switches respectivly. they both kill resource forks, though they shouldn't in OS X.4. If you need it now, try finding utilities to binary encode or hex encode the files before. tarpit is able to do that.