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From: roger@homxc.ATT.COM (Another Technical Editor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Shouldn't StuffIt implement atob/btoa?
Message-ID: <5960@homxc.ATT.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 89 15:29:59 GMT
References: <604@tekno.chalmers.se> <570@salgado.stan.UUCP> <3948@ece-csc.UUCP> <1073@esquire.UUCP>
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In article <1073@esquire.UUCP>, sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:
< 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.

Add my vote. Stuffit does its job wonderfully, but it
really hurts to have to spend 45 minutes at the Mac
doing repetitive mousing and waiting, mousing and waiting.
(I download a lot of stuff at once.)
Don't people buy computers to avoid this sort of drudgery?

I'd be happy to see a built-in procedure that:
  - Unhexes everything in the folder that can be unhexed.
  - UnPacks everything in the folder that can be unpacked.
  - UnStuffs everything in the folder that can be unstuffed.
  - Extracts everything from each archive that can be, etc.
  - Doesn't bother telling me the Lempel-Ziv algorithm
    was used. (Like I care.)
  - Lets me know when it's done.

Roger Tait                             ..att!homxc!roger
AT&T Bell Labs Technical Publications        Holmdel, NJ
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Technical Writers."