Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.apps:4755 comp.sys.mac.misc:9827 comp.sys.mac.programmer:22827 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!resnick From: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: PROPOSAL - Archive Standard Message-ID: <1991Mar20.181449.29057@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 20 Mar 91 18:14:49 GMT References: Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 35 jeffb.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu (Jeffrey Boser) writes: > These posts are for the most part forgetting one important >aspect of macintosh implementation: FREEDOM! >1) Putting multiple files in a folder to be compressed inhibits *my* > freedom to extract them where I want them to go. You've missed the point: If someone gets an archive without everything in a folder, and then wants to just extract everything (as is easiest on a Unix box), you end up with a mess of files all over your current directory unless you first create a new directory for the un-archived files and move the archive there to extract things. When there is only one file in the archive, this is not necessary. I like the idea of the person putting them all in one directory if there is more than one. I can always move them later, and current versions of Stuffit now allow me to go through the folders in the archive anyway. >2) Using Text files for docs does not let the creator to use graphics > and picts (as complicated programs sometimes require) as he wishes. > Besides, MacWrite, Word, and WriteNow have fairly standard formats > and can be handled by most word processors. Using programs which create mini-applications for docs is much nicer than MacWrite, Word, or some other thing that at least *someone* is bound not to have. You can also put graphics and picts in TeachText, though it is less fun. pr -- Pete Resnick (...so what is a mojo, and why would one be rising?) Graduate assistant - Philosophy Department, Gregory Hall, UIUC System manager - Cognitive Science Group, Beckman Institute, UIUC Internet/ARPAnet/EDUnet : resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu BITNET (if no other way) : FREE0285@UIUCVMD