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From: drc@dbase.UUCP (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: StuffIt. Please use PackIt!!
Message-ID: <253@dbase.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 09:31:19 EST
Article-I.D.: dbase.253
Posted: Mon Nov  2 09:31:19 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Nov-87 00:00:07 EST
References: <1562@sics.se>
Organization: Ashton Tate Development Center Glendale Cal.
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Summary: Why not?  U a dinosaur?

In article <1562@sics.se>, roland@sics.se (Roland Karlsson) writes:
> Oh no!
> 
> Not yet an other way of distributing mac files.
> 
> I am unfourtainly forced to download StuffIt. Some person (Thats the most
> positive word I can think of) may use this NEW PackIt format. Please don't.
> 
> StuffIt may be better than PackIt. It may save some bytes on the net. But
> it is not worth it! I (and probably you) already have a working solution how
> to download with PackIt ( Using PackIt (on MAC), unpit (on UNIX), etc. ).
> 
> -----
> 
> Please Tony Jacobs tell the net NOT to use your maybe very good program.
> 
> In spite of the first lines I don't want to offend you. I just don't
> want to have one more way to download programs.
> 
> 	Roland Karlsson

I say, why not?  It is an archiver rather than just a compressor, it's faster,
it generates (usually much) smaller files, and it's free to those who only use
it to decompress archives which relieves the general marketplace of either
having to find an alternative or not paying the shareware fee (and the vast
majority of this net has not from the number of registrations which Harry
received).  Every complaint registered against PackIt in the past was answered
by Raymond Lau's StuffIt program and I think it should be given a chance.  It's
an unwillingness to progress such as that expressed above that made the
dinosaurs extinct.

Dennis Cohen
Ashton-Tate Glendale Development Center
dBASE Mac Development Team
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Disclaimer: Opinions expressed above are my own.  I don't know what (if any)
opinions my employer might have on any subject under discussion.