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From: laird@slum.MV.COM (Laird Heal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Public Archive Format Issues
Message-ID: <1990Sep25.150122.2398@slum.MV.COM>
Date: 25 Sep 90 15:01:22 GMT
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[I'll keep answering, folks, when four messages for changing to an unknown
archive format arrive with none opposed.  Give some men a gun, the first 
thing they'll do is try to shoot themselves in the foot...]

In article <71882.26FAF85A@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:
>
>[having a documented file format is not the general rule]
>
>(You say, "If the file format was public, you could write your own."  I say,
>the file format is Aladdin's.  If they don't want to make it public, that's
>their choice.  I can choose to use it, or not, for reasons of my own.)
>
Let's choose not to use it here, for reasons of our very own.  

Even on the Macintosh, MPW tools allow me to enter the editor, pick up the 
BinHex data, put it into a window or use the Worksheet to xbin just the 
selection, and then automatically process that.  I would rather not give up 
this capability.
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