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From: hallett@macbeth.steinmetz (Jeff A. Hallett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Major problems with StuffIt (1.40a and 1.31)
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Date: 26 May 88 11:44:07 GMT
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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.
>


Yes, but any application you use to compress/encode files for
uploading (even BinHex and Packit) suffer this "drawback".  It is not
a drawback, it is something that potential net or archive users must
endure.  In fact, Stuffit is better to have since it does Binhex and
Packit as well as its own format.  (Granted, there is a slight problem
with Ray's UnBinHex code, but I'm sure he's well aware of it and
working on it.)

Hopefully as StuffIt becomes more popular (as it appears it is), it
will become as widely available as BinHex and PackIt are.

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