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From: umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: StuffIt Deluxe
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.213109.16987@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 29 Aug 90 21:31:09 GMT
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In article <90241.105126CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu> CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher Tate) writes:
>Funny you should bring that up, since last I heard, the author of PKzip was
>working on a Mac version.  I've seen the working archive header specs for the
>
>From all I've heard, PKzip is significantly faster and more efficient than
>any other archive utility.  Add to this the bonus that it's already well
>established in the PC world, and may therefore provide a means of porting
>files between the Mac and the PC, and you have a compelling reason to switch
>over to using PKzip instead of Stuffit or other similar utilities.
>

I heard that rumor a while back, but never heard anything else about it,
so I thought it was just a rumor, hopefully not.   

I'm not sure how much faster and more efficient it is than Compactor
or StuffIt Deluxe is, but atleast PKZIP is updated on a regular basis,
and hasn't sat idle for 2 years like StuffIt has.

Charles