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From: macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwendener)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Shouldn't StuffIt implement atob/btoa?
Message-ID: <796@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 89 18:33:26 GMT
References: <604@tekno.chalmers.se> <570@salgado.stan.UUCP> <3948@ece-csc.UUCP>
Reply-To: macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwendener)
Organization: ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
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>>	   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)!  :-)

How about implementing it as a MPW tool? You could give him the file
names as parameters (with wildcards, hint, hint) and commands qualifiers
for the options (binhex, stuff, destuff, encrypt, etc). And even better,
you could run it within a script, automatically, and have the script
perform other nice things (like distributing it into the right folders,
cleaning up all unused files, etc). This is just the thing we're looking
for, for our on-site PD servers.

-- Danny Schwendener
   ETH Macintosh Support