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Subject: A Shrinkit(tm) reply..
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Date: 19 Oct 89 12:52:15 GMT
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*** SMALL FLAME ON ***


>Things change, Joe.  There are forces at work here that I can't quite explain
>or much less control.  For a while I let them get the best of me, but things
>will change (soon).

Well Andy you got me here.. It happens to all of us at one time or another.
Not much I can say about that... 

>No, you don't.  You could slap them on a disk and shrink the whole disk.
>You could use Gary Little's AppleSingle maker and then shrink the resultant
>file.  Just because you're so irrational to think that ShrinkIt is already the
>only way to do things doesn't mean it really *IS* the only way to do things.

Shrinking the whole disk is just getting around the problem and was NOT the
reason I posted the message..

>Next time before you respond to something, how about taking a deep breath and
>a step back before you do?

Boy I wish I could do that ALL the time...I guess your a pro at this and ALWAYS
do, huh....

>You shouldn't think like that, Joe -- if I were to pull shrinkit down off of
>the info services like CIS and GEnie, everyone and his brother would be
>very unhappy.  What is anyone going to use to archive forked files, huh?  DDD?
>Yeah, right.

Well, I don't know easy that would be. I'm sure there was some type of agree-
ment on this...It DOES state in your docs that it is FREEWARE. Now to me that
means I don't HAVE to pay for it. If I'm wrong (I'm not a lawyer) then tell me
so. Now I sent Floyd a check for BLU, because I appreciated his program and
his support. As I do for Shrinkit it! 

>The fact of the matter is that places like CIS and GEnie CAN'T drop 
>ShrinkIt now.  if they do, their libraries basically can't function because
>no one can unpack anything.  

Sounds like your tooting your own horn here Andy. You did write a nice 
program. Someone else can come along and do the same. Try not to get puffed
up or arrogant about it. 
 
>And yes, a formal reply to kent dickey's article is coming.  I've been more
>than busy with college work this week without having to contend with
>something like that.  Been to college, Joe?  Find it hard?  Good, I do.

Well from reading Kent's reply, I'll stand back and take a breath on this one.
Did you or did you not right the packing algorithim?? No I haven't been to 
college. I don't find it hard, cause I didn't go. I do support my family real
well, without having gone to college..
 
>> Joe

That's me... 

>andy

>A hot-headed small-minded post for your hot-headed small-minded post

Same Here....

Joe

ps: I JUST saw the press Release for Shrinkit/GS(tm).