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From: pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: A tangible reason to use/support StuffIt. (ma
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.105544.1940@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 91 14:55:44 GMT
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In article <41298@nigel.ee.udel.edu>,
johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu writes:
> One of the nice aspects of the new versions of StuffIt is a "modular"
> structure that supports "Translators" for *other* file formats.
> Translator modules contain just the information needed to accomplish
> the format conversion;  StuffIt Classic or Deluxe provide the user
> interface.

Yes, this is a good idea, and one which will be showing in a future
version of DD as well, according to Lloyd Chambers (though I must
admit to nagging him to put it in :-))

> DDexpand, and Ascii<-->Binary.  UU**code, tar, and ".Z" (unix compression)

One warning about the DDExpand translator in SD. One person on AOL had
immediately downloaded it and tried and it promptly locked his machine
up completely. Since Salient hasn't given their format to Aladdin any
more than Aladdin has given their format to Salient, there are bound
to be some quirks for a while until Aladdin completely figures out
what Lloyd has done. And then of course is the problem that DD 3.1 is
being shown at Macworld Expo right now (a free upgrade for registered
usrs) and it uses a slightly different file format, such that 3.0
can't expand 3.1 files and it's extremely unlikely that the SD
translator can either. Just so as you know ....

cheers ... Adam

>
> -- Bill (johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu)
> -- 38 Chambers St.; Newark, DE 19711; (302)368-1949
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