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From: umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: StuffIt in the trash!
Message-ID: <1990Sep14.202408.12504@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 14 Sep 90 20:24:08 GMT
References: <1990Sep4.182943.22627@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <2829@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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In article <2829@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger) writes:
>	does the length of time between updates have to do with the
>	problem at hand. No one else in that two years was out running
>	around creating new compression utilities till this year.

Maybe other's finally got sick of waiting as well?  And saw the need for some
thing better, so they wrote it?


>	The idea of peeking into folders that you thought you needed
>	for so long probably only came to mind now that Deluxe does
>	indeed incorporate that feature.

Haven't been around very long have you?  There was a utility written quite
awhile back that would allow you to look into folders, it just didn't 
suddenly come to mind one day...I had been using this feature on IBM archivers
long before I got the Mac. <2 years ago>

>	Stuffit 1.51 has always been shareware, thus the thinking that
>	you should not be using commercial software on public archives
>	is rather moot. Unless you were using the freeware versions
>	of Unstuffit, you should have paid for using Stuffit 1.51 long
>	ago.

Thats not the point.  Shareware software can be freely distributed and
tried out...You can't do that with commercial software.