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From: leonardr@svc.portal.com
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Subject: Re: Compactor vs StuffIt(s).
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.172956.9157@svc.portal.com>
Date: 16 Nov 90 17:29:56 GMT
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In article <1990Nov16.044114.2024@midway.uchicago.edu> francis@arthur.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes:
>Okay, somebody's pointed out to me that Compactor creates self-
>extracting archives.  This, I suppose, actually makes it better than
>StuffIt for distribution, since you don't need anything but the archive.
	Stuffit Classic also offers the ability to save your archives in 
'self-extracting' form, however unlike Compactor it also allows you REMOVE
the 'self-extracting' code later on should you choose!

>However, BinHex would still be a good thing, since (a) it gives ASCII,
>which ensures Unix will never freak over it, and (b), BinHex recognizes
>things that don't have a file type--which is pretty much sure to be the
>case when you get it off a Unix-type machine--& you can't run an app
>unless its type is APPL.  (This is actually a problem with StuffIt;
>without going in somehow & forcing the thing to be the right type--
>tricky [impossible?] when it doesn't have a type at all yet--I can't
>get StuffIt to see the downloaded archives, unless they were BinHexed.)
>
	Admittedly, not intuitively obvious, if you hold down the option key
when doing an 'Open Archive' in ANY version of Stuffit it will allow you
to choose ANY file to open.  This way, if somehow the type is invalid, or
you want to open self-extractors or installers, you can do so!

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