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From: ldg@yoda.byu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Naming your Stuffit-packages
Message-ID: <92ldg@yoda.byu.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 90 02:16:48 GMT
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In <1990Mar19.011421.1471@NCoast.ORG>, Brandon S. Allbery writes:

>+---------------
>| 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.

How about sticking everything in a folder, then duplicating the descriptive
text file and Stuffing it along with the folder? That way, you could read
the text file to decide if you want to UnStuff the whole works, but could
also do the batch method if you prefer. If you used the batch method, the
extra text files would all be outside the folders and could easily be deleted
all at once.

Lyle D. Gunderson  N6KSZ          CIS: 73760,2354     GEnie: L.GUNDERSON
ldg@yoda.byu.edu                "Any technology without some attendant risk
350 CB / BYU / Provo, UT 84602   of misuse is probably trivial"  --Louise Kohl