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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Public Archive Format Issues
Keywords: encryption conversion issues
Message-ID: <1990Sep24.221359.20035@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 24 Sep 90 22:13:59 GMT
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In article <2283@runxtsa.runx.oz.au> clubmac@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Macintosh Users Group) writes:
>In article <1990Sep20.013226.17253@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:

>Most Mac users do not use UNIX-based stuffit-compatible tools, and I know this
>from vast experience with Mac users from all over Australia, and many in the
>U.S.

Most Mac users don't use Usenet, or BBSs.  For compressing files that are not
going to be made public, I don't care if you use the Compression Format
from mars, number 3, on a rot13 file.  I just think that files available on
a network which consists mostly of Unix machines ought to be manipulable
on Unix machines.

>I just couldn't let it go on without commenting on the whole
>thread as the biggest wank in comp.sys.mac history. The comp.binaries.mac
>moderator has indicated that postings will remain in Stuffit 1.5.1 format.
>Most probably the info-mac archives will too.

I saw that.  Good.
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