SIT File Documentation


Overview

Feature Value
Format Name StuffIt Archive
File Extension .sit
MIME Type application/x-stuffit
Developer Raymond Lau
Introduced 1987
Compression Method Adaptive Huffman Coding / Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW)
Archive Support Yes
Platform Initially Macintosh, later Windows
Maximum File Size Depends on filesystem limits
Encryption Support Yes
Multi-part Archive Support Yes
Open Source No
Lossless Compression Yes
Self-extracting Archive Support Yes
File Archive Spanning Yes
User Interface GUI (Graphical User Interface)
Filename Encryption Yes
Compression Ratio Varies depending on data type
Support for Macintosh Resource Forks Yes
Preview Files without Extraction No
Comment Support Yes