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From: 6600patb@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Pat Breitenbach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: StuffIt Deluxe (Compactor)
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Date: 5 Sep 90 19:24:39 GMT
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In article <68934.26E3FE5C@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:


>Jim Matthews   writes in a message on 08/29/90 at 13:56:51 ...

>JM>  The original StuffIt's compression is nearly as good as SD's, 
>JM>  and having a  documented file format is a great advantage.  
>JM>  I don't see any good reasons  to switch...


>Is it me, or did Aladdin put a pretty new face on the very same old compression
>routines?????

>--Adam--
> 

It's you.
The compression routines are new and not the same as far as I can 
tell, but that's just from reading the discussion.

-Patrick

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