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From: mlr0@bunny.UUCP (Martin Resnick)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Don't use PackitIII
Message-ID: <544@bunny.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Sep-86 03:38:50 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 18 03:38:50 1986
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> | BinHex is free and has become the de facto standard for encoding Mac binary
> | files.  Packit, on the other hand, is $15 shareware and is used by only a
> | handful of people on the net.
> +---------------
> 

The MacBinary version of Binhex (V5) is not free, it is shareware.


> PackitI is also free. PackitII IS shareware and PackitIII is also shareware.
> However, UNPACKING packit I, II and III* files is also free
> because of three programs available free. These are unix unpit and the
> mac implementation of it, distributed in net.sources.mac, and a program called
> unpacker, for the mac, which can unpack but not pack packit files. It appears
> to me that unpacker was distributed by Harry Chesley.

Unpacker was written by Don Brown of CE Software for MAUG on CompuServe.