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From: blm@6sceng.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Stuffit Deluxe
Message-ID: <507@6sceng.UUCP>
Date: 3 Sep 90 18:10:34 GMT
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Organization: Six Sigma CASE, Inc.
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In article <25@genco.uucp> rad@genco. (Bob Daniel) writes:
|What's the big deal!! Unstuffit and Stuffit Classic 1.6 can unstuff deluxe
|archives.

Once again for those of you not paying attention:

But not on UNIX, or VMS, or an Amiga, or a PC, all of which I can do
now, because the Stuffit 1.5.1 format is documented and freely
available.  It also means that if, for instance, I hate StuffIt's
user interface (which I do), I can't write my own.  An MPW tool
for instance.

By not publicly documenting the file format, Aladdin is locking everybody
in to their tools.  I claim this is a Bad Thing.
-- 
Brian L. Matthews	blm@6sceng.UUCP