> The sit program was originally written in 1988 and posted to Usenet's comp.sources.mac newsgroup by Tom Bereiter. The program assumed that it was running on a Unix system where each input file either had no resource information at all, or was split into 3 binary files named with .data, .rsrc, and .info extensions.
Only 30 years late for me to discover lol
Sometimes I wonder if it's due to the older code being produced with the mentality of "Look here something I hacked together, it sort of works." and people where happy about it because it was better than nothing, and you felt no right to demand anything of the author. If you wanted something changed the social contract was that you'd be the one to do the work, even if it meant learning e.g. C, not learning to open an entitled issue on Github.
Edit: found it http://web.archive.org/web/20060205025441/http://www.stuffit...
pabs3•2mo ago