Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!reed!glacier!busker!f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG!Garance.Drosehn From: Garance.Drosehn@f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Garance Drosehn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Don't post stuff using stuffit Message-ID: <618.2783DED2@busker.fidonet.org> Date: 28 Dec 90 10:57:59 GMT Sender: ufgate@busker.fidonet.org (newsout1.26) Organization: FidoNet node 1:226/20 - cmhGate UF Gateway, Columbus OH Lines: 32 Reply-To: Garance_Drosehn@mts.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 + Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. -- Garance Drosehn - via FidoNet node 1:105/14 UUCP: ...!{uunet!glacier, ..reed.bitnet}!busker!226!20!Garance.Drosehn INTERNET: Garance.Drosehn@f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG