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From: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU (Six o'clock News)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Compact Pro 1.30 vs. StuffIt Deluxe 2.0.1 (performance)
Message-ID: <11272@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 19 Feb 91 22:56:26 GMT
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Reply-To: gousha@cory.Berkeley.EDUIn article <616@6sceng.UUCP> blm@6sceng.UUCP (Brian Matthews) writes:
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>|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...
From: gousha@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Charles Gousha)
Path: cory.Berkeley.EDU!gousha

>A good interface is in the eye of the beholder.  I hate StuffIt's
>interface, and while Compactor's isn't perfect, it's much better than
>StuffIt's jumbled, cluttered interface.

>Just one humanoid's opinion...

>Brian L. Matthews	blm@6sceng.UUCP

Since we seem to be voicing opinions, I'm siding with Stuffit.  While
compactor's interface is wonderfully simple, on the surface, Stuffit
doesn't seem to be very different from Compactor; just a lot more
capabilites.

Best thing for me, though, is that it can handle compressed files
in just about ANY format, from Packit to DiskDoubler to Zip.  It's handy
to have them in one program.

I do use both, though. (Stuffit won't do Compactor :-)   )

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