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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
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Subject: Re: I just downloaded StuffIt Classic and...
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Date: 7 Nov 90 20:48:51 GMT
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In article <3132@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jlhaferman@l_eld09.icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff Haferman) writes:
|Correction on my original posting - it installs FOLDERS in the System Folder.
|I don't like this either, but what really gets me is that they are called
|"Help" and "Preferences".  That's really dump.  How about something like
|"StuffIt Help" and "StuffIt" preferences.  Ray Lau must be getting silly
|at the ripe old age of 19.

Well, maybe, but I think actually he was looking ahead to the future,
when "Help" and "Preferences" folders within the System folder are to
be the standard place for all applications, thus reducing the
incredible amount of clutter that a System folder can accumulate after
a number of medium to large applications are installed.

	/JBL
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