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From: owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen)
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Subject: Re: Compact Pro 1.30 vs. StuffIt Deluxe 2.0.1 (performance)
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Date: 12 Feb 91 23:05:24 GMT
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In article <798@sousa.enet.dec.com> 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...

Clearly a case of different strokes...I think Compactor has one of the
best user interfaces I have seen. It is incredibly clean, well thought out and
surprisingly simple for a program that does so much. I find StuffIt's interface
cluttered and ugly.

Granted StuffIt now does more than Compactor. But think back to StuffIt 1.5. It
did LESS than Compactor does now (no self-unstuffing archives, no navigation
through archives), yet it's interface was much more complex than Compactor's.

Anyway, I personally WANT a clean simple program. Many of StuffIt's options I
don't need, and some are intrinsically useless (all the different options for
how to stuff, when most of them are markedly inferior to Compactor's, both in
speed and % compression). I like Compactor, and have gratefully dumped StuffIt
(although I paid for it, sigh).

-- Russell
owen@raven.phys.washington.edu