u guys got to remember the timing of these things..
the sitx format was introduced.. *drumroll* around the same time as alot of other programs were being transferred to OSX
ie: 2003-2004
so naturally u would have to use a version of stuffit from this era
to have the functionality of extracting or creating .sitx
heres a thread on sit vs sitx
http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/22978/sit-vs-sitxnote the date: april 2003 4/10/03
.sitx correctly stores Unix permissions. That's the difference.
So I could use .sitx on my entire Applications folder (for example) and then when I unstuffed it all the permissions would be in place?
Good to know.
i would assume that the .sitx format has its origins in
the programmers making an attempt to match all of the
extra unseen features of using in combination, SIT + OS9
and bringing a similar featureset to those people
who had depended heavily on these features at the time...
making the transition more viable to continue working + archiving
in the same way with the combination of OSX + SITX
re: resource forks, permissions, metadata etc etc
using .sit on os9
and using .sitx on osx
will preserve the proper file attributes + unseen properties more eeffectively
there is no purpose for creating .sitx on os9 in order to move files to osx
.sit works fine for this purpose...
in summary:
.sitx would only be more usefull + beneficial over .sit if transfering an elaborate set of data/program files from 1 OSX machine to another with the goal of maintaining these settings
also
using a more recent-ish version of stuffit should allow u to extract these files and may also facilitate some type of file properties/permissions conversion from osx perms to os9 perms...
(im guessing)