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From: kenh@hscfsas1.harvard.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Which format to use? (Was: StuffIt, etc.)
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Date: 29 Dec 90 18:59:04 GMT
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As far as I'm concerned, when people send submissions to the
info-mac archives, they're doing it for the benefit of others.
I'm certainly don't want to impose all these facist restrictions
as to what format they have to use.  Use whatever they normally use.
Why force them to go to the trouble of compressing it with application
xyz?

What no one has mentioned so far, is that anyone who sends anything to
sumex-aim, whether it be Compactor, StuffIt, or StuffIt Deluxe, is
that they're expected to have paid the shareware fees to use the
compression.  If someone has shelled out the $20 bucks (or whatever)
for Compactor, why make them pay for StuffIt?

Sure, people will have to learn that .cpt means that they have to use
Compactor or Extractor to uncompact it and that .sea means self-extracting
archives, and that .sit means StuffIt.  So what?  Since when is learning
something bad for someone? 

Ken

 
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