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From: dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek)
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Subject: Re: Naming your Stuffit-packages
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Date: 16 Mar 90 17:04:09 GMT
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In article <14573@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:

>... and I'd like to suggest that people putting together Stuffit files
>please refrain form sticking everything into a folder.  If it's in a
>folder, and it takes a half-hour to unStuff, then it'll report that
>it's 0% complete until the very end.  When it's only dealing with
>separate files, its report of how far it still has to go is more
>accurate.

... and I'd like to suggest that people putting together Stuffit files
please stick everything into a folder.

Currently, the only reasonable thing to do after downloading a number
of files is to make a folder for each one, put each in its respective
folder, and then unStuff each.  Otherwise you end up with a lot of
files to sort through and try to remember which files go together.

I hadn't noticed that Stuffit reports 0% done for folders.  If so,
this is a bug, and should be reported to StuffIt's author (Ray Lau, if
I recall correctly).  But then, I've never tried to unStuff anything
that took more than a few minutes.

If you would prefer not to put everything into a folder, then at least
think of better file names.  Instead of MacFoo, file, doc, and README,
how about MacFoo, MacFoo file, MacFoo doc, and MacFoo README.
-- Dave Matuszek (dave@prc.unisys.com)
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