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From: dtw@F.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Duane Williams)
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Subject: Re: Reasons to avoid StuffIt.
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Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 11:13:04 EST
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| StuffIt adds yet another protocol to the minimum set.  Why complicate
| matters?

	It's too late.  Have you looked at the files on 
	GEnie and CompuServe lately?  StuffIt is here to stay.  The
	thing to do is to persuade the author to build BinHex into
	StuffIt; then you would have all the protocols in one program.

| StuffIt is shareware (for the packer).  Why use a shareware program when a
| free one is available?

	StuffIt is free for the unpacker.  No one is forced to use it
	for packing.

| Why test a new program?

	Progress.


Finally, StuffIt is a nifty compression and archiving program, even if you
don't want to use it for binary file transfer.

Duane Williams
dtw@cs.cmu.edu