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From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Shouldn't StuffIt implement atob/btoa?
Message-ID: <1073@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 89 14:08:53 GMT
References: <604@tekno.chalmers.se> <570@salgado.stan.UUCP> <3948@ece-csc.UUCP>
Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
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In article <3948@ece-csc.UUCP> jnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall) writes:
>In article <570@salgado.stan.UUCP> dce@salgado.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
>>	   at once.  It's a real pain unbinhexing 221 Technical
>>	   Notes files one at a time. [with StuffIt]
>
>Here, here!  Computers are supposed to help you AVOID doing repetitive
>chores, not CREATE them.  C'mon, Ray, give us a multiple select (or better
>yet, a wildcard)!  :-)

A "quiet mode", a la MacCompress would also be nice.  Much of the
overhead involved in unstuffing files (especially small ones) seems
to come from constantly updating all the windows.  Unless an error
is detected, I'm quite happy to have Stuffit go about its business
without all the fireworks.

(This is not to detract in any way from Stuffit in its current
incarnation -- it's truly a fine and useful program).

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