Stuffit

don't use tar :) stuffit is probably your best bet, and dropstuff is free. or you could make a compressed disk image if you have something against stuffit.

for. public is for file sharing and anything in there needs to be in a format that can be downloaded.like a .sit or .bin. You can use drop stuff which is part of stuffit expander to do this. ...

Have you tried dragging and dropping the .sit file on top of the Stuffit Expander Icon? ...

How do I open .img files the disk copy won't mount the image and Stuffit Expander says I need Graphic Converter to open it but I don't have that and I couldn't fing it on the web

backups of previous logs using the "gz" compression scheme. To look at these files, just drop their icon on top of Stuffit Expander or double click on them. ...

and Stuffit auto-expanding (I think)... plus sometimes it gets stuck with the .php suffix. Just amend the suffix (as long as you remember/find out what the correct one is (normally .zip for me).

I never thought of that and it seems to have worked. Stuffit unpacked the file and I am just about to try the install via hotsync. I'll let you know. ...

after updating to 10.1.5, some random, redundant stuffit files are now showing as being owned by "unknown". when I try to delete these I am refused by "you do not own these items". ...

xtracting .zip files. If you know for definite that the .exe file you are dealing with is just a .zip file in disguise, then you can simply rename it a .zip, and Stuffit Expander should unzip it fine. I've done it a few times. ...

OK, the problem was that the exe wasn't downloaded completely, downloaded it again and Stuffit Expander could read the contents