Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!rutgers!cmcl2!esquire!esquire.dpw.com From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: I just downloaded StuffIt Classic and... Keywords: stuffit classic compactor Message-ID: <2787@esquire.dpw.com> Date: 7 Nov 90 12:47:05 GMT References: <2780@esquire.dpw.com> Sender: news@DPW.COM Reply-To: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten) Distribution: na Organization: Davis Polk & Wardwell Lines: 32 In-reply-to: starta@tosh.UUCP (John Starta) In article , starta@tosh (John Starta) writes: >Since Classic is distributed in the form of an installer, it would only >make sense to give it to someone else in that form. It is distributed in >that form to save space and to make sure you get the entire package each >time. Why is that a negative in your book? > >John Because I don't want to keep the installer around after I've installed it (it does take up another 400K or thereabouts). So a friend stops by, says, "Gee, that looks like a useful utility. Can you make a copy for me?" and I have to remember to copy the application, its subfolder, the two folders it creates in the System folder, etc. I know it's not a big deal, but I prefer having the application and all its support files together. After all, what's the point of putting these things in the System folder? Most word processors and DTP packages keep their myriad dictionaries and printer definition files in subfolders within the application folder, and that seems to work fine. And certainly on an Appleshare network, it makes little sense to duplicate the Help and Optimizer files in everyone's System folders, rather than just having them live in one place on the server. Anyway, it's not a big deal, just a general inconvenience. And if all the files could live together in the same folder (or in sub-folders), you wouldn't *need* an installer in the first place. -- Steve Baumgarten | "New York... when civilization falls apart, Davis Polk & Wardwell | remember, we were way ahead of you." baumgart@esquire.dpw.com | cmcl2!esquire!baumgart | - David Letterman