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From: white@ucs.sfu.ca (Steve White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Compactor - A reason not to use
Message-ID: <1991Jan4.041548.13862@ucs.sfu.ca>
Date: 4 Jan 91 04:15:48 GMT
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I don't like to un-binhex on the Mac side.  On a 9600 baud modem, it's
worthwhile to un-binhex with mcvert on my unix machine and then use zmodem to
upload.  So for unix users, the un-binhexing ability of StuffIt is not
crucial.
Concerning the switching of applications: If you're running MultiFinder,
it's certainly not a heck of a lot more work to launch binhex and
Compactor, and if you're NOT running MultiFinder, you can always
un-binhex the whole lot and then un-compact them all.  One switch per
batch.