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From: george@swbatl.sbc.com (George D. Nincehelser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Naming your Stuffit-packages
Message-ID: <1268@swbatl.sbc.com>
Date: 19 Mar 90 04:02:18 GMT
References: <1990Mar14.075223.28847@uwasa.fi> <29500@amdcad.AMD.COM> <14573@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <13185@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> <1990Mar16.212328.10063@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Mar19.011421.1471@NCoast.ORG>
Reply-To: george@swbatl.UUCP (George D. Nincehelser)
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In article <1990Mar19.011421.1471@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>As quoted from <1990Mar16.212328.10063@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> by hirchert@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Kurt Hirchert):
>+---------------
>| 2. I would like StuffIt to have the option to create a folder, but I would
>|    prefer you not to force that on me.  Sometimes I want to look at the
>|    documentation or README file on a program without extracting the whole
>|    mess.  Forcing the folder prevents me from doing that.
>+---------------
>
>This one could be solved by having something (option-click on folder?) expand
>the folder's contents in the archive listing; then select items as usual.
>This gives the user the option of extracting the entire folder with a
>double-click or extracting single items from the folder in the usual way.
>
>++Brandon

Another option is to use Boomerang to create a new folder.  A 
command-n enter-foldername sequence works great, but it doesn't do
you much good for the "batch" unstuffing option.

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