Re:ReStuff
by wongarsu on Friday November 27, 2020 @08:00PM
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You can have ext4 partitions that are readable by ext2 drivers, you just have to disable certain ext4 features.
But more to the point: If you want to open ext4 on a system that was written before the release of ext4 you can just implement a program that can read ext4. Meanwhile apparently the simplest way to open a StuffIt 5 file on System6 is to spin up a System7 VM on a different computer, extract the file with an installed copy of StuffIt 5, compress those files with a copy of StuffIt 3.5, then move that file from the VM to your System6 computer.
But more to the point: If you want to open ext4 on a system that was written before the release of ext4 you can just implement a program that can read ext4. Meanwhile apparently the simplest way to open a StuffIt 5 file on System6 is to spin up a System7 VM on a different computer, extract the file with an installed copy of StuffIt 5, compress those files with a copy of StuffIt 3.5, then move that file from the VM to your System6 computer.