The Unarchiver on Stuffit 5 Files

Here's a tip that might come in handy for users here. It was shared on my own forum:

"I reckon [[The Unarchiver]] could be handy in dealing with Stuffit 5 archives and environments where Expander 5 will not run: just use The Unarchiver in Windows to unpack all the files with MacBinary encoding, and then un-MacBinary them using Expander 3 (or whatever) on the Macintosh side."

There are a lot of games here where we suggest that they be unstuffed in Basilisk II using Stuffit Expander 5 and then played in Mini vMac. This is awfully time consuming... and maybe impossible for people who are unable to get Basilisk II up and running.

The Unarchiver is here: http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver

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2011, December 24 - 8:00pm

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Good pointer. One has to deal with the command line interface on non OSX machines though.
Therefore it might be easier asking here for someone converting the desired app in a container MiniVMac can use.