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From: hairston@henry.ECE.CMU.EDU (David Hairston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Compact Pro 1.30 vs. StuffIt Deluxe 2.0.1 (performance)
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Date: 12 Feb 91 17:44:59 GMT
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[craparotta@craparotta.enet.dec.com (Joe Craparotta) writes:]
[] I would think that as most people can see, Compactor Pro, does indeed blow 
[] away Stuffit Deluxe (any version).. THe one thing that Bill SHOULD work on 
[] is the interface for Compactor. I'm sure that most people stick with 
[] Stuffit, for this reason. It has be one of the BEST interfaces I've ever 
[] seen...

no, it can't be Stuffit's user interface!  it's only slightly better
than Compact Pro's.  it must be the diversity of features in Stuffit.
personally, i think Goodman's strategy should be to make a small/fast
de/compressor (i.e. Compact Pro) and a fancy full-featured, do everything
compatible model (umm, Compact Deluxe ;).  would it be giving away too much
if the algorithm were made public?  Stuffit 1.5.1 has shown us that knowing
the algorithm and doing it efficiently are two different things.

a friend tells me that this debate (stuffit vs. compact pro) says a lot
about the state of mac users but she won't tell me what it is.  i hate
pysch majors ...

  -dave-  
hairston@henry.ece.cmu.edu