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From: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Diamond (new archive/backup utility)
Message-ID: <24560@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 7 Jul 89 19:21:19 GMT
References: <740@orbit.UUCP>
Reply-To: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Organization: Wolfskill & Dowling residence; Anaheim, CA (USA)
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In article <740@orbit.UUCP> granteri@pnet51.cts.com (Grant Erickson) writes:
>Great...just what we need is another archival program. It would seem to me
>that StuffIt is the best alternative being its installed file base is HUGE.

  Hmmm... I can recall making the same argument when StuffIt first
appeared. "Why use StuffIt, when everything in the Mac world is already
archived with PackIt III?" Boy, was I wrong. In roughly a year, StuffIt
completely replaced PackIt III as the standard (and with good reason--
its compression and feature list were far superior.)

>The newer version of it due out this fall should be much faster and archive
>much smaller size stuffits. Anyone else have information from Ray Lau or
>Alladin on this?

  I'm looking forward to it. But if Diamond proves to be better, who knows?


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