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From: nicholaA@batman.moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: A Shrinkit(tm) reply..
Message-ID: <417@batman.moravian.EDU>
Date: 23 Oct 89 07:11:39 GMT
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In article <113300120@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, krb20699@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

>      I think I can stand to use a simple NuFX archiver, regardless of how
> spiffy it is.  I'd actually prefer less overhead as long as it did the actual
> job well.  Resource-fork archiving isn't a major issue.  The only forked files
> I've ever seen have been CDEVS.  I'll admit, if you archive CDEVs a lot,
> resource-support is necessary.  Otherwise...

Actually, archiving files with resource forks will become incredibly important
in the months ahead because many, many programs are being designed to take
advantage of resource forks.  as more and more programs do this, you'll see
the frustration level people experience start to rise as they start to try
archiving these things... hang on, help is coming... :-)

andy


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