So. I kind of like BOMArchiverHelper.app, the default OS X unzipping utility. However, it has quite a number of limitations. Most other unarchivers on OS X have interfaces that I don't like, or just don't work very well. Also, thanks to Windows' idiotic idea of using the current system encoding for filenames, I have tons of archives from Japan with Shift_JIS filenames, which none of the unarchivers on OS X I've tried will handle properly.
And so I, because I obviously don't have enough to do already, get the idea that I need to write a better unarchiver. Features I think it needs include:
For actual information on the current state of this project, read on!
Minor problem I'm having with 1.1:
The icons for some files are not showing up. For example, .zip (which is associated to Unarchiver) shows up as the unknown document icon (blank page) instead of the nice brown package icon. Works fine for others (RAR, for example).
Any thoughts?
Thanks for this app, it's soooo much nicer than StuffIt.
I should add that I have the same problem as Nick with my SIT files.