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What is a .sit file?

A .sit file is a Stuffit archive, much like ZIP files today, except that .sit is a proprietary archive format from the 90's which allowed Mac users to confidently 'stuff' their files, applications and documents into a flat file that could then be copied to a non-Mac hard drive partition, namely a DOS (FAT32) or Windows (NTFS) partition, without any risk of DATA corruption.

You see, throughout the 80's, 90's and all the way up to mid 2000's, anybody using any Mac OS version prior to Mac OS X was using .sit archives to transfer their files onto PC's, servers or to send them by email or FTP, for instance, since transfering any pre-OSX era file to a non-Mac partition or by an ASCII encoding way would destroy the file's resource fork, which would essentially render the destination file totally useless. Effectively, except very early 1984 Macintoshes, they all used HFS or HFS+ partitions to store their files (and their resource forks) all the way up to Mac OS X 10.13 High Sierra which shifted away from HFS+ in favor of APFS.

Some document formats did not use a resource fork even back then, such as plain ASCII text documents, archives (.hqx, .bin, .zip, .cpt, etc... which all of these and many more can be expanded using Stuffit Expander) and .sit archives of course :P But just about anything else in a pre-2003-ish Mac, especially applications, all had a highly sensitive resource fork.

How to use or extract .sit archives contents?

To extract or expand a .sit archive, you simply open it with Stuffit Expander UNDER MAC OS of course, even if Stuffit Expander had a version for Windows at some point, since it makes absolutely no sense to expand an old Mac file stuffed in a .sit archive outside of a HFS partition. If you have time to lose, then do it and see your expanded files destroyed, stripped of their resource fork, rendered totally useless.

Always try to use the most recent version of Stuffit Expander available for your Mac OS since there were some changes in the Stuffit format throughout the years. Everything on MR should be expandable using Stuffit Expander 5.5.

Under Classic Mac OS (before Mac OS X)

Mac OS 7.5 to Mac OS 9.2.2: Stuffit Expander 5.5

Mac OS 6.0 to Mac OS 7.1: Stuffit Expander 4.0.2

Under Mac OS X

Use The Unarchiver

Under Windows

Do not attempt to expand any .sit file under Windows.


Old(ish) application doesn't work in macOS SierraHelpful? Please support me on Patreon: thanks & praise to God, an. Mac OS 9.x, based on Mac OS 8 was the final product based on the classic MacOS architecture. Like previous version, it lacks true protected memory or pre-emptive multitasking. MacOS 9 was abandoned in favor of of the Unix-ish NextStep/Openstep based Mac OS X. Mac OS 9.x, based on Mac OS 8 was the final product based on the classic MacOS architecture. Like previous version, it lacks true protected memory or pre-emptive multitasking. MacOS 9 was abandoned in favor of of the Unix-ish NextStep/Openstep based Mac OS X.


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I have been a Linux user for the last decade or so, but cranked up a FBSD (6) machine about 4 months ago to give it a try. I can move around in it pretty good by now, but I am a long way from FBSD gurudom. Since this machine is learning only, I have always had plenty of time to figure out how it works, either from the books or googling.
But a question has come up that I can't answer - or more accurately, am not qualified to answer.
Our school district has switched over to Macs after a disasterous trial of Vista and they like them very well. I knew that Apple's OSX was some kind of 'nix based OS but never thought on it before. After a little googling, it appears that Apple used FBSD as the basis for their OSX platform.
Some of the techier/nerdier/smarter kids have found the terminal application and have (with permission) descended into the insides of the platform. I have also looked and it appears to be fairly FBSD'ish. Their question is , does Apple use fairly standard FBSD, or have they redone it to their needs? In other words, if these kids learn the platform OS on their new Macs, are they learning FBSD or some hybrid OS that only applies to Macs?
Obviously the best place to ask this question would seem to be on a Mac forum, but I have found that while there are many Mac experts who can detail every corner of OSX, very few know anything once they drop out of the GUI. Some even argue that I am in the wrong forum, that OSX has nothing to do with 'Unix'.
Thanks all.
Konan