Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:01 AM.

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system.verbs.apps.stuff.createArchive

on createArchive (sitfile, filelist, flbinhex) {
	on SITEnginePresent () {
		return (file.exists (file.getSpecialFolderPath ("", "Extensions", false) + "StuffIt Engine™"))};
	if SITEnginePresent () { <<use the StuffIt Engine
		try {file.delete (sitfile)}; <<Wed, Jan 22, 1997 at 5:46:24 AM by DW
		StuffitCMD.stuff (filelist, sitfile, false, false, false, flbinhex)}
	else { <<use StuffIt Deluxe/Lite
		app.start ("stuff");
		app.bringToFront (); <<4.0.2
		bundle { <<create a new archive file
			try {file.delete (sitfile)};
			on make (new, at = nil, withData = nil, withProperties = nil) { <<Make a new element
				return (appleEvent (stuff.id, 'core', 'crel', 'kocl', string4 (new), 'insh', at, 'data', withData, 'prdt', withProperties))};
			with objectModel {
				make ('Arc ', withProperties: {'fPth':string (sitfile)})}};
		bundle { <<add the files in the list to the archive
			local (ct = sizeof (filelist), i);
			for i = 1 to ct {
				local (into = nil, encryption = nil, compression = nil, deletingOriginals = nil);
				local (replaceDuplicates = nil, matchCriteria = nil);
				appleEvent (stuff.id, 'SIT!', 'STUF', '----', alias (filelist [i]), 'dest', objspec (into), 'encr', boolean (encryption), 'comp', boolean (compression), 'dele', boolean (deletingOriginals),  'repl', boolean (replaceDuplicates), 'matc', boolean (matchCriteria))}};
		bundle { <<close the archive
			with objectmodel {
				appleEvent (stuff.id, 'core', 'clos', '----', objspec (window [file.filefrompath (sitfile)]))}};
		if flbinhex { <<create the BinHex file
			appleevent (stuff.id, 'SIT!', 'TRAN', '----', alias (sitfile), 'trnm', "BinHex4", 'encd', true);
			file.delete (sitfile)}}}
<<bundle <<test code
	<<local (sitfile = "Jaz Disk 1:testfile.sit")
	<<local (filelist = {"Jaz Disk 1:Picture 1", "Jaz Disk 1:tmp.html"})
	<<createArchive (sitfile, filelist, true)

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This listing is for code that runs in the OPML Editor environment. I created these listings because I wanted the search engines to index it, so that when I want to look up something in my codebase I don't have to use the much slower search functionality in my object database. Dave Winer.