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From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
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Subject: Re: Downloading IIGS S/W on mac
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Date: 31 Jan 91 14:30:35 GMT
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In article <5817@idunno.Princeton.EDU> kadickey@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kent Andrew Dickey) writes:
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>begin with), but BINSCIIed files always transfer perfectly.  I combine
>this set-up with GSCII+ to unBINSCII all the files.  This set-up has
>made more than one Mac user drool.  (BinHex, the rough equivalent of
>BINSCII for the Mac, requires all the headers to be stripped off, and
>for all the parts to be in the proper order.  It also can't do multiple

Yup, BINSCII is a _great_ program. The only problem it has is the interface...
Frankly, it sucks [IMHO]. I hope the newer version (1.1, I think?) is better.

>files at once.  In addition, StuffIt on the Mac is about 2-3 times
>slower than ShrinkIt.  Face it--Mac's suck.  :-)

I've always wondered why StuffIt is so slow... I even think that unStuffing a
file with GSHK is faster than using Stuffit on a Mac SE.

>Kent Dickey
>kadickey@phoenix.Princeton.EDU
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