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From: hairston@henry.ece.cmu.edu (David Hairston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: bye, bye Stuffit 1.6
Message-ID: <HAIRSTON.90Nov12120021@henry.ece.cmu.edu>
Date: 12 Nov 90 17:00:21 GMT
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periodically i make space on my hard drive and during this sweep i
decided to trash Stuffit Classic 1.6.  will i miss it?  my preference
in these sort of things is a compact utility that will:
a) manipulate binhex (binhqx da is good example of this)
b) manipulate packit and stuffit formats (ala stuffit 1.5.1)
c) create dense archives (compactor, disk doubler and diamond do this well)
d) stay reasonably small (i.e. ~125k application size)
e) not use a proprietary format (don't care if its commercial as long as
    the price stays reasonable, hmmm ...)
f) creates self-unpacking archives.

any beasts like this on the horizon (stuffit 1.5.1 was near perfection)?

  -dave-  
hairston@henry.ece.cmu.edu