How to create stuffit files on Linux?

[Noah]

I need to create Stuffit (.sit) files on Linux.
Does anyone have any ideas for how to do this?
I checked the Python docs and on SourceForge, but
I didn't see any open source stuffit compatible libraries.
Are my Mac users out of luck?

Yours,
Noah

 

[Simon Percivall]

Stuffit Expander can handle zip, rar, tar, gz, etc, etc, etc. Don't
worry.

 

[Noah]

The problem is that my users want to see .sit files.
I know it's sort of silly. Zip files are foreign and frightening to
them.
I mentioned zip files, but they didn't want to deal with them.

Is there a native OS X archive or package format?
Obviously it must have tar and gzip installed, but I wonder
how a *.tgz file would appear on the desktop or how the
GUI would handle it.

Yours,
Noah

 

[James Stroud]

Your users are, what me might call, "ignorant luddites".

The built in 'File->Create Archive' command produces a zip file in OSX. I
propose that zip is indeed the native compressed format. Perhaps you should
install OS 7.5 on their machines (c. 1993) to make them feel more
comfortable.

James

 

[Leif K-Brooks]

The problem is that my users want to see .sit files.
I know it's sort of silly. Zip files are foreign and frightening to
them.

Would Stuffit open zip files renamed to .sit?

 

[Greg Ewing]

Would Stuffit open zip files renamed to .sit?

Yes! I just tried it, and it works.