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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
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Subject: Re: StuffIt Deluxe (Compactor)
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Date: 30 Aug 90 14:50:53 GMT
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In article <1990Aug29.210453.24025@svc.portal.com> leonardr@svc.portal.com (Leonard Rosenthol) writes:
>	Another point is that Ray is certainly not sitting still, and although
>I can not comment on details, let it simply be said that the next version
>of Deluxe will KICK *SS in terms of both compression size and speed at which
>it can create such archives.

Leonard --

All the time while we were waiting for StuffIt Deluxe, you kept saying
how it was going to be worth the wait.  It wasn't.  I think it's
probably one of the worst $40 I've spent on software.  Magic Menus
are really nice.  That's the only good thing I can say about it.
It's slow as a dog.  I've been comparing Compactor and SD's best
a lot as I do uploads.  Usually compactor is within a couple percent
of SD's best and far faster.

Personally, I don't want to change to another standard.  I'm hoping
that someone at Aladdin is going to get their butt in gear and do
something about the speed.  I'm willing to give them one more chance,
because I'm one of those people who sent off my $20 simply because
it was going to save me $$ downloading and I thought Ray certainly
deserved the bucks.  One more chance is all I'll wait for, though.
After that, $25 goes out to Bill Goodman and StuffIt Deluxe
goes into the circular file.
 
Ken



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