- Extension
- .sit
- .gzip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Aladdin Systems
- GNU
- Description
- StuffIt Archive (.sit) is a compressed archive format originally developed for the classic Mac OS. It bundles multiple files into a single archive while compressing them and preserving Mac-specific data such as resource forks. It was long the standard way to distribute and store files on the Macintosh platform.
- A compressed file format associated with GNU Zip (Gzip) that uses the DEFLATE compression algorithm, a combination of both the Huffman coding and the Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) codec.
- MIME Type
- application/x-stuffit
- application/x-gzip
