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From: cox@stpstn.UUCP (Brad Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Compact Pro 1.30 vs. StuffIt Deluxe 2.0.1 (performance)
Message-ID: <6320@stpstn.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 91 23:04:52 GMT
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Reply-To: cox@stpstn.UUCP (Brad Cox)
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In article <3451@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad) writes:
>In article <798@sousa.enet.dec.com> craparotta@craparotta.enet.dec.com 
>(Joe Craparotta) writes:
>> 
>
>> THe one thing that Bill SHOULD work 
>> 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...
>
>I for one prefer the Compact Pro interface.  It's not perfect, but I find 
>it elegant, simple, and uncluttered.
>
I agree wholeheartedly. Stuffit always seemed obsessively and gratuitiously
busy, particularly its overblown help facility.  I'm impressed with the fact
that Bill spontaneouly, under his own initiative, understood that it would
be better to combine the compact/uncompact options under a single menu (a 
better fit with my intuition), and to support decompression by double-clicking,
etc.

The slickest user interface innovation, IMHO, was his design for SitExpand,
which instantaneously eliminated Stuffit from my machine. Double-click on
a stuffit archive and it creates a folder, expands the archive into the folder,
and then asks if it should delete the archive. Perfect! 

Small, intuitive, fast, elegant. Wish more software were like that.
-- 

Brad Cox; cox@stepstone.com; CI$ 71230,647; 203 426 1875
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