StuffItSpecs

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Paul Taykalo edited this page Mar 9, 2018 · 1 revision

File formats

StuffItFormat - The old StuffIt archive format
StuffIt5Format - The new StuffIt archive format introduced in v5

Compression algorithms

0: No compression
1: Rle90Algorithm: RLE
2: CompressAlgorithm: The compress LZW algorithm with 14 bits maximum code length, and block mode
3: StuffItAlgorithm3: Simple Huffman encoding of individual bytes
5: StuffItAlgorithm5: "LZAH"
8: StuffItAlgorithm8: Miller-Wegman
13: StuffItAlgorithm13: LZSS and Huffman
14: StuffItAlgorithm14: ?
15: StuffItArsenicAlgorithm: BWT and arithmetic coding