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StuffIt Commands 5.5 osax Dictionary

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  1. StuffIt Commands

StuffIt Commands: Events the StuffIt Commands implement

Events:

BZip: Compress the files into BZip format

BZip a list of alias -- the files to compress

[into file specification] -- destination for the newly compressed items

[deleting originals boolean] -- if true, the original files will be deleted after successfully encoding

[compression level small integer] -- compression level (default is 6)

Result: file specification -- Where the BZipped files got placed

BinHex: Encode the files into BinHex4 format

BinHex a list of alias -- the files to encode

[into file specification] -- destination for the newly encoding items

[deleting originals boolean] -- if true, the original files will be deleted after successfully encoding

[adding line feeds boolean] -- if true, we add line feeds to the resultant file.

Result: file specification -- Where the BinHexed files got placed

Determine File Type: Determine the file type of a given archive or file

Determine File Type file specification -- file whose type you wish to know

Result: string -- description of the file type

Expand: Expands all archives in supported formats

Expand a list of alias -- the file(s) to expand

[into file specification] -- destination for the newly expanded items

[deleting originals boolean] -- if true, the original files will be deleted after successfully expanded

[converting text files boolean] -- if true (default), we intelligently convert files determined to be of type “TEXT”

[password string] -- if specified we use this as the password for an encrypted archive

[no folder boolean] -- no surrounding folder when expanding

[showing progress boolean] -- showing progress dialogs for UnStuffing only (default is true)

Result: file specification -- Where the newly expanded stuff got placed

MacBinary: Encode the files into MacBinary format

MacBinary a list of alias -- the files to MacBinary encode

[into file specification] -- destination for the newly encoded items

[deleting originals boolean] -- if true, the original files will be deleted after successfully encoded

Result: file specification -- Where the MacBinary files got placed

Mount Image: Mount a disk image

Mount Image a list of alias -- List of images to mount

[unlocked boolean] -- Mount the image files as unlocked disks?

[in RAM boolean] -- Mount the image files in RAM?

Result: file specification -- The newly mounted volume

Stuff: Stuff one or more files into a new archive

Stuff a list of alias -- list of files/folders/disks to be stuffed

[into file specification] -- full pathname of the archive to create

[deleting originals boolean] -- if true, the original files will be deleted after successfully stuffed

[encryption boolean] -- if true, encrypts the archive (see also “with password”)

[compression boolean] -- if false, simply adds files to archives w/o compressing them.

[resolving aliases boolean] -- if true (the default), all aliases will be resolved before stuffing

[making self extracting boolean] -- if true, create a self-extracting archive

[encoding as BinHex boolean] -- if true, BinHex the resulting archive.

[password string] -- when encrypting you can specify a specific password here instead of manually.

[comment string] -- add this text to the archive’s comment

[add to existing boolean] -- add file(s) to an existing archive instead of creating a new one

[showing progress boolean] -- show progress dialogs (default is true)

Result: file specification -- Where the new archive got placed

UUEncode: Encode the files into UUEncoded format

UUEncode a list of alias -- the files to encode

[into file specification] -- destination for the newly encoding items

[deleting originals boolean] -- if true, the original files will be deleted after successfully encoding

[adding line feeds boolean] -- if true, we add line feeds to the resultant file.

Result: file specification -- Where the UUEncoded files got placed

Zip: Zip one or more files into a new archive

Zip a list of alias -- list of files/folders/disks to be zipped

[into file specification] -- full pathname of the archive to create

[deleting originals boolean] -- if true, the original files will be deleted after successfully zipped

[compression level small integer] -- how much compression (0-9, default is 6)

[resolving aliases boolean] -- if true (the default), all aliases will be resolved before stuffing

[macbinary encode boolean] -- MacBinary encode the files as they are added (if this parameter is NOT specified, we do “smart” encoding)

Result: file specification -- Where the new archive got placed

 

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