Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!mts.rpi.edu!Garance_Drosehn From: Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Don't post stuff using stuffit Message-ID: <&-Q^~++@rpi.edu> Date: 28 Dec 90 02:57:59 GMT References: Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: gilead.its.rpi.edu In article sbchanin@ai.mit.edu (Steve Chanin) writes: > In response to the past few articles which mentioned problems > with stuffit, I'd say don't use it. Use Compactor instead. Compactor > is a $25 shareware copmression program which can produce > self-extracting archives if you want it. Its performance As one of the people who had problems with the Stuffit deluxe installation program, I say hogwash. Stuffit is fine. I've had guys beating me over the head about how great Compactor is, and when I saw it in action I saw no reason to bother with it. If I didn't own Stuffit (in any form) then I might (maybe) have gone for Compactor, as it did seem faster. But as a registered user of Stuffit 1.5.1 you should get Stuffit 1.6 for free, in which case I certainly don't see any reason to spend $25 on some other program. Many many people already have stuffit, and for network-transfered software I'd think that would be much more important then whether people save 30 seconds decompressing a 700 megabyte file. Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY. USA