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From: umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Compactor
Message-ID: <1990Sep9.151943.9988@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 9 Sep 90 15:19:43 GMT
References: <1521@camex.COM>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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In article <1521@camex.COM> kent@camex.com (Kent Borg) writes:
>
>I have looked at Compactor but can't find two crucial features: there
>seems to be no way to spit a large file into smaller chunks (like the
>"Segment" item in StuffIt's "Other" menu), and there seems to be no
>option to binhex/unbinhex files.  (Heh, uuencode and uudecode might be
>nice too.)

But there is one nice thing that Compactor does that StuffIt doesn't.
That is, when the floppy disk you are archiving to gets full, Compactor
stops and lets you insert another disk and create another segment, you
don't have to split the archive up yourself like you do with StuffIt.
From those segments, Compactor allows you to do any function on the 
segments, including individual extractions without having to resegment
the archive like you would have to with StuffIt.

There have been several complaints about no binhex features in Compactor,
maybe we'll see it in the next version?   I don't miss it all that much
anyways, as Binhex 4.0 was faster at it than StuffIT was so I prefered
to use the two seperate programs when unstuffing.

>I did notice that, unlike StuffIt, Compactor is a good MultiFinder
>citizen.


You got that right!  

Charles