[Ham-Mac] OS X development

Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:00:13 -0600

On 2/17/02 4:32 AM, "David Anderson" <[email protected]> wrote:

> It appears that .dmg Disk Images are what Apple recommends for application
> distribution.
> 
> What I am not sure about is what what we are supposed to do after that,
> should they be .gz .bz .uu .sit .hqx or what?
> 
> I am sure someone on this list will put me right.
> 

Perhaps I am missing something here....but the few OSX files that I
distribute, I've stuffed and binhexed with StuffIt, yielding a
FileName.sit.hqx file. I've had no problem downloading these under OSX at
all, and it works under OSX and OS8/9. I'm not opposed to distribution
through .dmg files, but why should I do it that way? Is there  a problem
with the stuffit format, or an inherent advantage to using a .dmg file???

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Steve A. Muncy            <mailto:[email protected]>
Dallas, Texas             <http://homepage.mac.com/smuncy/main.html>