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From: kenh@hscfsas1.harvard.edu (Ken Hancock)
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Subject: Re: I just downloaded StuffIt Classic and...
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Date: 9 Nov 90 16:04:38 GMT
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In article <3132@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jlhaferman@l_eld09.icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff Haferman) writes:
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>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.

Actually, this is one of the only things I'd care to defend.  System 7.0
will do the same thing to save System Folder clutter.  All Preferences
files will go in a Preferences folder, all Help files will go in a
Help folder.  Ray did that part of it right, at least.

StuffIt is deadly slow, as someone said.  I ran it on a IIci in Finder,
so it had 8 megs to work with.  The smart thing to do would be do
allocate a large input buffer and a large output buffer -- I should
see very little disk access.  Instead, I see almost constant disk access.
Supposedly, StuffIt Deluxe users (myself included) have been promised
a faster version RSN.  I can only say I hope so...

Ken


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