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From: arends@Yosemite.metaphor.com (Dale M. Arends)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Stuffit Deluxe again
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Date: 30 Jul 90 15:03:57 GMT
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In article <3671@husc6.harvard.edu> fry@brauer.harvard.edu (David Fry) writes:
>
>Before buying Stuffit Deluxe (even at the discount price for
>current users), what I want to know is: does it still support
>BinHex and PackIt files?  
>
>David Fry                               fry@huma1.harvard.EDU

Yes, StuffIt Deluxe does still support BinHex 4 conversion, and PackIt II
and III formats.  It can sutff and unstuff archives of version 1.5.n format.
It cannot handle the rival .cdt format archives that are starting to show up
on GEnie.  These are made by a program called Compactor which (supposedly)
makes smaller archives faster than StuffIt.  Compactor can unstuff v1.5.n
Sutffit archives faster than StuffIt can, but is not as fully featured.

One nice thing about StuffIt Deluxe is that text and PICT files can be
viewed before unstuffing them onto the disk (requires .5Meg free memory).  
Viewers for other file types can be created by third parties for use with
SD as an external module.

SD also allows traversal of the stuffed folder hierarchy (finally!).

Most other features are pretty much the same.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot :-) :-) :-0  StuffIt Deluxe now has a built in 
scripting language!  I haven't looked at it much yet but...

IMHO, it is now a mature product.  I hope they don't evolve it beyond
usability.

Dale

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Dale M. Arends					Metaphor Computer Systems, Inc.
arends@metaphor.com
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