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From: kent@circus.camex.com (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Compactor
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Date: 17 Sep 90 03:20:48 GMT
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In article <1990Sep10.205758.7075@silvlis.com> jimb@silvlis.com (Jim Budler) writes:
->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
->
->There's a way, I read it in the docs. If you output archive media runs
->out of space, you'll be prompted to insert another media (floppy).

Compactor is being too smart.  I want a dumber way to do it.  What if
the "output archive media" is a uucp mailer that barfs on files that
are too big?  Does one need to create a set of SilverLining partitions
of mailer-limit size?

I guess this isn't quite so important until Compactor can binhex or
uuencode, but it will be important then.

(Please forgive the "->"s above.  I usually approve of facist mailers,
but I don't see how I can further shorten the quote without being
unclear.  I guess one option would be to lengthen my message, say,
with a long parenthetic remark, but that would be too cheap.)

->Jim Budler          jimb@silvlis.com       +1.408.991.6061

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