Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!bellcore!faline!ulysses!mhuxt!ihnp4!cuuxb!ltuxa!ll1a!spl1!eiibank!robby From: robby@eiibank.UUCP (Robby Kates) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Reasons to avoid StuffIt. Message-ID: <130@eiibank.UUCP> Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 17:22:10 EST Article-I.D.: eiibank.130 Posted: Fri Nov 6 17:22:10 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 11-Nov-87 04:05:26 EST References: <1562@sics.se> <7499@dartvax.UUCP> <7507@dartvax.UUCP> <2103@tekig4.TEK.COM> <1895@dasys1.UUCP> Reply-To: robby@eiibank.UUCP (Robby Kates) Organization: Beatrice Company Lines: 39 Keywords: stuffit packit and phone bills Summary: StuffIt save Kbytes and $$$ In article <1895@dasys1.UUCP> ssegan@dasys1.UUCP (Sascha Segan) writes: > >I've heard a bunch of people badmouthing StuffIt. I 'live' at Ray's home site, >and I've been talking to him. StuffIt is DOWNWARD COMPATIBLE, folks! >Pretty soon, if what I've heard is right, StuffIt will be the only program >you need. It CAN unpit PackIt files, and a version in the works(?,Ray?) >can unBinHex! >So, periodically, you post StuffIt to comp.binaries.mac, but even people >who DON't have it can pack with PackIt and StuffIt can unpack! >Sheesh. >----Sascha > >-- >Sascha I. Segan {allegra,philabs,cmcl2}!phri\ >Big Electric Cat Public Unix {bellcore,cmcl2}!cucard!dasys1!ssegan! >New York, NY, USA {hoptoad,bc-cis,aecom,orville,raspi}!/ I too have been following this debate. Frankly I've got this to say: smaller volume of news to uucp is a good thing. As system administrator at this site I get pretty scared when I see how much news comes in every day. Using StuffIt is an ideal way of decreasing volume, simply because no news is lost, and space is saved. We have to pay (like real $$$) for the phone lines, and I expect that StuffIt will pay for itself in phone bills (since there is the cost both of getting the news in the feed and from downloading the files to the mac). Sascha (above) described how StuffIt is great functionally. The other side of the coin is the saved space and time, and that is quite valuable. I will be happy to mail copies of StuffIt to anyone who needs one, and ask people who post to please use StuffIt to compress the files. It will save us time and money. -Robby -- Robby Kates Beatrice Corporate Headquarters ...ihnp4!eiibank!robby Chicago "...and a lover who looks straaaaangly, like Time the Avenga..." -CH- #include