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From: bagchi@sparky.eecs.umich.edu (Ranjan Bagchi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: zip vs. other archivers
Keywords: archivers stuffit zoo arc pak
Message-ID: <582@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 89 00:07:50 GMT
References: <1669@nigel.udel.EDU> <284@tcville.HAC.COM>
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In article <284@tcville.HAC.COM> allen@tcville.hac.com (Allen Farrington) writes:
>Ya know, the primary Mac archiver, Stuffit (now a commercial
>product), is a really slick program.  You just dclick on the
>archive's icon and you're presented with a listing of the
>available files.  Select the ones you want and it'll undo
>them in a jiffy.
>
>I don't see why some industrious person couldn't take the zoo
>source (it's PD isn't it?) and add a slick user interface
>to it.  Any takers?

Gack. No...a thousand screams no...  Graphic-type interfaces are nice, 
without a doubt for an infrequently used program, that does a lot
of stuff that needs complex settings.  
 
However, archiving isn't one of them.  It really is the sorta thing that
people do an awful lot of, if they do it at all.  And, for the most part, 
anyone who does BBS-or even more so-UNIX/netnews stuff, should have no
problem with the CLI anyway.  You should know as well as I do that
mixing keyboard and mouse-usage is a pain in the butt.
 
Not to mention that I never download a program with an icon.  Wastes
disk space.  
 
If you want an un-archiver, it really isn't all that hard to make
an executable script, and use XICON on it.
 
.
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