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From: tdn@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Thomas Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Reasons to avoid StuffIt.
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Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 21:00:24 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  3 21:00:24 1987
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In article <32710@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>>3) They are free.  BinHex4.0 and UnPit are free programs. . .
>
>Binhex 4.0 is shareware. If you copy isn't, someone illegally modified it.
>
Binhex 4.0 is NOT shareware.  All the versions of BinHex before 4.0 were free
and contained no advertisements.  BinHex 4.0 is also free, but displays an ad
for Mainstay on startup.  BinHex 5.0 IS shareware -- but who needs it?  Every
major Macintosh terminal program except MacKermit can deal with the MacBinary
format directly, and BinHex 4.0 is sufficient to handle everything else.

>Of course, Binhex doesn't matter. This is packit vs. Stuffit. Packit is
>shareware for both the packer and the unpacker. unpit takes care of this for
>the unpacker, but the packer is still in the same situation for both
>programs.

I don't want to get into the PackIt vs. StuffIt debate, but the current Mac
version of Unpit can produce both compressed and uncompressed PackIt files.
The current user interface does not allow one to compress only some of the
files being packed, but otherwise Unpit 0.3 has all of the functionality of
PackIt II.

                                        -- Thomas Newton