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From: davidw@telxon.UUCP (David Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Archive idea (was Re: Self Extracting Archives)
Summary: I hate self-extraction
Message-ID: <495@telxon.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 90 13:01:54 GMT
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	I think that's great! Everyone seems to be overlooking the WORST
aspect of self-extracting files.
		They make you waste your time DLing extraction code
		you probobly don't need
If you dl 5 things, each with the extraction code, you have just wasted
5*x amount of disk storage, time, etc. I suspect most people will prefer to
use the extraction program, rather than trust self-extraction, and for those
people, the self-extraction code is a waste. For the others, they simply
need to learn the basics of operating a computer. If they don't like having
the archiver handy, it's better that (maybe) 5% of the people are inconvienced
instead of 95% wasting their time...
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