Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!ur-tut!syap
From: syap@ur-tut (James Fitzwilliam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Major problems with StuffIt (1.40a and 1.31)
Message-ID: <2116@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 88 03:48:46 GMT
References: <221@istop.ist.CO.UK> <440013@hpdstma.HP.COM>
Reply-To: syap@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (James Fitzwilliam)
Organization: Gadgetland USA
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In article <440013@hpdstma.HP.COM> dave@hpdstma.HP.COM (Dave Waller) writes:

*Unfortunately, although the advantages of StuffIt are extensive, it has the
*chief disadvantage of making files unusable for those who don't have Stuffit
*to decompress the archives.

This is also true of Packit, the old standard, and for that matter BinHex.
Stuffit is available on all the major services -- I got my copy of 1.40a
from GEnie -- and I seem to remember one version being on sumex, though I
don't remember which one.  For that matter, anybody who can get the net
can ask somebody to send them a copy, or ask a friend with posting priv-
ileges to do so.  So the (perfectly valid) disadvantage of availability
is not really a practical objection to its use.

I like 1.40a's new "you-don't-have-to-edit-the-non-BinHex-text" feature
a lot, but if you do any chopping you have to leave a dummy line before
the first line of info, or you get a -39 disk error, as other people have
reported.  Not serious, but I hope it gets fixed, since it detracts from
the elegance of an otherwise ultra-spiffy utility.

					James

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