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From: peter@hari.Viewlogic.COM (Peter Colby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Don't post stuff using stuffit
Message-ID: <1990Dec28.110336@hari.Viewlogic.COM>
Date: 28 Dec 90 16:03:36 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@hari.Viewlogic.COM (Peter Colby)
Organization: Viewlogic Systems, Inc., Marlboro, MA
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	First, let me say that I am a registered user of StuffIt
Deluxe 1.0 and I have also done some beta-testing of SD 1.1 (or
what is actually becoming SD 2.0). Currently, however, I am using
Compactor. Why?? 90% speed, 9% archive size, 1% multifinder
friendliness. My home machine is a mac+ and I just can't afford
to wait for hours (literally) to compress or uncompress a large
archive (like the Apple TN stack).

	However, Compactor has nowhere near the features I need
for archival storage of my HUGE collection of software. In
particular, the viewers, the access to multiple archives with
copying of files between such, the ability to incorporate additional
features - compressors, viewers, and so on - without waiting for a
new version of SD to be released....

	If SD 2.0 is even approximately close to Compactor in
speed and compression ratio, or if I can incorporate the freely
available LZW algorithm used in UN*X compress (and MacCompress)
as another compression method in SD, then I'll run for SD 2 so
fast Compactor won't even see my dust.

	One last note. I am one of the reportedly very few people
who has been seriously impacted by the StuffIt Installer problem!
I would STILL prefer to use StuffIt Deluxe.

	Just my own opinion.
	Peter C

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