Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!bridge2!ngg From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: I just downloaded StuffIt Classic and... Keywords: stuffit classic compactor Message-ID: <2918@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> Date: 7 Nov 90 19:28:11 GMT References: <2780@esquire.dpw.com> <2787@esquire.dpw.com> Distribution: na Organization: 3Com Corp., Mt. View, CA Lines: 29 In article <2787@esquire.dpw.com> baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten) writes: >>time. Why is that a negative in your book? > >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 >Anyway, it's not a big deal, just a general inconvenience. And if all > Steve Baumgarten It seems to me that you would copy the Installer to a floppy, if someone wanted a copy of Stuffit Classic, you take out the floppy, and give him a copy of the Installer application, no pain, no strain. The reason that some of the files go into the system folder or into Folders therein is because of Apple guidelines to this effect if I recall. Preference files, Help files, etc... That way no matter where you move the Application, it can always find its support files. Sounds like a much easier way to handle things than what you propose, you seem to be advocating doing it the hard way..IMHO... -- Norm Goodger SysOp - MacInfo BBS @415-795-8862 3Com Corp. Co-SysOp FreeSoft RT - GEnie. Enterprise Systems Division (I disclaim anything and everything) UUCP: {3comvax,auspex,sun}!bridge2!ngg Internet: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM