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From: coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge)
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Subject: Re: Compactor - A reason not to use
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Date: 13 Jan 91 22:09:15 GMT
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rterry@hpcuhc.cup.hp.com (Ray Terry) writes:
>Many of the reasons expressed in this thread for not using Compactor 1.21
>are currently being addressed in v1.3.  Compactor 1.3 is currently in beta
>testing and adds among other things, binhexing, segmenting, segmented sea-s,
>user interface improvements, etc...

I'd really love to have a copy to beta-test, because right now I
_can't_ run Compactor 1.2.1. Why? Because I run A/UX, and Compactor
doesn't work under A/UX (it crashes in the Add... command). I hope
that Compactor 1.3 fixes this problem. Fortunately, self-extracting
archives do work.

Admittedly, A/UX is a very small segment of Compactor's audience;
however, the programs that don't work under A/UX now are likely to
be the ones that die under newer Systems (7? 8?) that enforce 32-bit
cleanliness.

--John

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