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From: trottiers@yvax.byu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: bye, bye Stuffit 1.6
Message-ID: <1783trottiers@yvax.byu.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 90 01:32:51 GMT
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DH> periodically i make space on my hard drive and during this sweep i
DH> decided to trash Stuffit Classic 1.6. will i miss it? my preference in
DH> these sort of things is a compact utility that will: a) manipulate
DH> binhex (binhqx da is good example of this) b) manipulate packit and
DH> stuffit formats (ala stuffit 1.5.1) c) create dense archives
DH> (compactor, disk doubler and diamond do this well) d) stay reasonably
DH> small (i.e. ~125k application size) e) not use a proprietary format
DH> (don't care if its commercial as long as
DH>     the price stays reasonable, hmmm ...) f) creates self-unpacking
DH> archives.
DH>
DH> any beasts like this on the horizon (stuffit 1.5.1 was near
DH> perfection)?

Compactor does all you mention except the binhex function.  But with BinHex
DA I don't mind that.  Compactor is still my compression utility of
preference.  The only reason I even keep StuffIt around is because some
people still seem to want uploads in that format.

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