Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!um-math!hyc
From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: some (should-be) ground-rules for submissions to comp.binaries.*
Message-ID: <335@clio.math.lsa.umich.edu>
Date: 24 May 88 18:57:03 GMT
References: <2689@utastro.UUCP> <699@lakesys.UUCP>
Sender: usenet@math.lsa.umich.edu
Reply-To: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor
Lines: 23
UUCP-Path: {mailrus,umix}!um-math!hyc

In article <699@lakesys.UUCP> macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak) writes:
%And while we're at it, perhaps a standard program for doing the
%packing/compression ought to be adopted.  Ray Lau's StuffIt is the obvious
%choice.  Though still with an aoccasional bug, StuffIt is certainly stable
%enough to use for mere stuffing/unstuffing of files.  StuffIt has certainly
%become the standard on the GEnie, CIS and other Mac sections, so why not here
%too?  Besides, Ray Lau only requests a shareware fee if one uses StuffIt for
%encoding/archiving purposes.  Otherwise, it is considered a freebie: all the
%more reason to adopt it as a standard on this system.

Just out of curiosity (I'm no Mac maven...), does the Stuffit program handle
ARC format compressed files? It would be nice if it did... There's been many
a time when I've wanted to get text files to or from a Mac and some other
system, and, while ARC has become the standard everywhere else, I have to
wade thru these weird programs like Packit, Packit II, Stuffit, etc... on
the Mac. I think Stuffit is a very nice program, but it'd be a useful new
feature if it could work with ARC files.
--
  /
 /_ , ,_.                      Howard Chu
/ /(_/(__                University of Michigan
    /           Computing Center          College of LS&A
   '              Unix Project          Information Systems