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From: msmiller@gonzoville.Eng.Sun.COM (Mark Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: StuffIt in the trash!
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Date: 5 Sep 90 17:01:36 GMT
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I was all set to get StuffIt Deluxe but then I heard all this ranting
about how unstable it was and all.

Well, I decided to get DiskDoubler instead - since UnStuff tools would
always be around and free. DD is truely slick. It will automagically
expand files when they get opened from applications (or the APPL itself)
and then recompress when the program finishes. It doesn't have all the
archive management power of StuffIt, but for ease-of-use it's hard
to beat. It's basically transparent, but can save you tons of space.

For instance, the "101 Buttons & Macros" stack is like 850K normally,
it compressed down to around 450K. I rarely use it, but like to keep 
it on my hard drive for when I need it. Now it's not as painful to
keep around and I don't have to go through extra steps to access it.
This is also a great way to keep your online help files around without
havingthem eat up megs and megs of disk.

Joe-Bob says: "Check out DiskDoubler".

	-MSM

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