Wow, keep up the great work! I made compression work on linux and added a github action to build for both mac/linux https://github.com/thecloudexpanse/sit/pull/3
sit - Create StuffIt archives on Unix systems
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Thanks! Appreciate your contributions. I haven't been testing my changes on Linux to this point, so the github action will certainly help.
EDIT: looks like the action is running successfully! https://github.com/thecloudexpanse/sit/actions
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@thecloud I have some similar solutions for shortcuts on AppleScript, so I adapted them quickly enough.
AppleScript:
tell application "Finder"
--Creating an array for selected files
set SelectedItems to {}
-- Create an array for the POSIX list of paths
set POSIXList to {}
-- We transfer the paths of all selected files and directories to the array
set SelectedItems to selection as alias list
-- We go through each chosen path
repeat with SelectedItem in SelectedItems
-- We take the path in quotation marks and convert it to POSIX format and add a space
set end of POSIXList to (quoted form of POSIX path of SelectedItem) & " "
end repeat
-- Determine the root by the first selected file or directory
set RootFolder to POSIX path of ((container of SelectedItem) as alias) as text
-- Set the name of the archive
set ArchName to quoted form of (RootFolder & "Archive.sit")
-- SIT It!
do shell script "/usr/local/bin/sit -o" & space & ArchName & space & POSIXList
end tellAttachments
Thanks! I had noticed that my quick-and-dirty script was only handling one selection, and really needed to iterate over the list as you have done.
There was some debate here about the need to encode Stuffit 1.5.1 *.sit files (for uploading to Macintosh Garden, etc.) using BinHex or MacBinary. The thinking was initially that the older v1.5.1 lacked Resource Forks, but then the dialog got kind of convoluted and nothing specific was mentioned about why older SIT files may get corrupted when uploaded. Thoughts?