Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!crackers!m2c!wpi!macman
From: macman@wpi.WPI.EDU (Chris Silverberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: StuffIt in the trash!
Message-ID: <15768@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: 19 Sep 90 23:08:35 GMT
References: <1990Sep18.021828.1904@slum.MV.COM> <24394@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <6288@spt.entity.com>
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In article <6288@spt.entity.com> mdc@spt.UUCP (Marty Connor) writes:

>But, you miss the point here.  All this talk about what Aladdin might
>or might not do is not relevant.  What if they change their mind
>later?

What if, what if, what if.... (hearing this ALOT huh?)

Well, if Aladdin did decide to be mr big brother then we would just have to
adopt a new compression standard... but Aladdin's been very helpful so far,
and I'm pretty damn sure the will continue to support their product as
well as they have. I'm sure they'll even come up with some of their own
unix tools, or find others to write them...

Point is, we now have some damn good compression programs for the Mac... the
time to start using one of these standards is now... if archive A continues
to use old Stuffit, while archive B uses something new (ie Stuffit, DiskDoubler
or Compactor), then i'll choose B's site, and be much more apt to recommend
B as a better site.




 
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