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From: macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Chris Silverberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: StuffIt Deluxe
Message-ID: <14996@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 4 Sep 90 15:39:29 GMT
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Reply-To: macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Chris Silverberg)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester ,MA
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In article <5299@spt.entity.com> mdc@spt.UUCP (Marty Connor) writes:

>Alladin (Ray Lau) created the Macintosh archiving/compression standard
>in the following way:
>
>    1. Raymond Lau Created a program which INCORPORATED  important
>       PREVIOUS STANDARDS (BINHEX/PACKIT)


Further on he writes:

>Alladin is IN EFFECT abandoning the old format.  
>
>    1. They have created a new format, and have created software
>       that uses as its primary format a new format.


So how is this approach different than the original Stuffit... you say that
Stuffit Deluxe and Classic both default to the new standard. Well, I seem
to also remember Stuffit 1.5 "defaulting to the new standard".  I couldn't
default to Packit format or Binhex... 

- Chris


 
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