despite whats been posted up there i have reason to doubt that the software actually limits you from going above 2gb
because i have a 6gb+ sit file on my desktop and when i view it with hex editor it shows 1997-2002 alladinsystems
which leads me to believe that it was created with stuffit deluxe 6 or stuffit deluxe 7
back in that time frame most people only used CDs + CD-R's; CD-RW was becoming a thing; DVD-R was probably out already but
i think most macs only came with CD capable drives; or they came with "Combodrives" or "Superdrives"
but hey; lemme just look this up real quick:
https://everymac.com/systems/by_capability/macs-with-cdrw-dvd-combo-superdrives.html
https://www.macworld.com/article/1021960/superdrive.html (JANUARY 31, 2001)
according to this article "Superdrive" landed in 2001; capable of burning DVD-R so there u go;
"The DVD-R/CD-RW SuperDrive comes only on high-end Power Mac G4 models operating at 733MHz" so initially it was a high-end option only included in the top of the line macs at first; but the articles saying that steve jobs wanted them to be in ALL MACS by 2002;
"The DVD-R/CD-RW SuperDrive, made by Pioneer, reads DVD titles at 6x (7.8 megabytes per second), and writes to 4.7-gigabyte DVD-R discs at 2x (2.6 megabytes per second). The SuperDrive also reads CDs at 24x, writes to CD-R at 8x, and writes to CD-RW at 4x. It supports DVD-Video, DVD-ROM and DVD-R, as well as CD-ROM, CD-Audio, CD-R, CD-RW, CDI, CD Bridge, CD Extended, CD Mixed Mode and Photo CD media."
anyway regardless; nobody was making archives of 6GB+ at that time? so i doubt aladdin systems would have limited the file from creating
archives that large? anyway regardless of what is fact; i have a 6.5GB .sit file on my desktop that says 1997-2002 aladdin sys in the beginning of the filename when viewed thru a hex editor; im trying to figure out which version of stuffit the file was made with;
trying to confirm this fact by installing different versions of stuffit and then creating a file; and viewing the file header with a hex editor; it could be that they simply forgot to update the code generated inside the .sit files created by the app; but i doubt it;
has anyone on this site successfully used stuffit to encode/decode files larger than 4gb? if so can u specify which version? trying to solve a mystery ...