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From: KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK
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Subject: Re: Where do I get files to uncompress .hqx .sit files ?
Message-ID: <91141.155340KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Date: 21 May 91 14:53:39 GMT
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In article <1991May16.230748.13747@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, kreme@isis.cs.du.edu
(Name? I don't need no stinking name!) says:
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>
>The draw back is that Stuffit is the slowest implementation of the BinHex
>decoder I have ever seen, and it cjokes about 60% of the time anyway.  Get
>the Binhex DA or use compactor Pro.
>
>Compactor decodes Binhex much faster than stuffit, and opens stuffit archives
>much faster than stuffit.  And it packs files smaller than stuffit.  And it
>packs much faster than stuffit.  And it work in the background, unlike
>Stuffit.

Are you comparing 1.5.1 or Classic?

The problem with Compact Pro's un BinHex is that it needs the text before
the "this file was ... BinHex 4.0" to be removed. Stuffit doesn't.

BinHqx 1.02 (a DA is quick) though.

Kevin

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