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It was essential back in the Mac OS 9 / early Mac OS X days. The .sit archive was one of the only things that reliably handled the resource fork in the HFS file system, and pretty much all the freeware I downloaded back then was in .sit files.

This was like... 1999 to 2005ish, so definitely feeling my "elder millennial" status.

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Yeah, 15 years ago was still well into the OS X days (heck, it was into the iOS days). Resource forks were long gone as a concern by then, and as such stuffit didn't really bring anything unique to the table, an in some ways was worse since no other *nix user was likely to even have it.

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