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From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Online documentation for Mac progra
Message-ID: <1120@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 3 Apr 89 17:36:37 GMT
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In article <28235@apple.Apple.COM> mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson) writes:
>In article <1113@esquire.UUCP> sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:
>>
>>Surely Apple could come up with the 15 or 20 dollars for a license...
>>
>Unfortunately, its not that inexpensive or easy for corporations distributing
>what the StuffIt folks call "commercial products..."
>
>Mark B. Johnson                                            AppleLink: mjohnson
>Developer Technical Support                         domain: mjohnson@Apple.com
>Apple Computer, Inc.         UUCP:  {amdahl,decwrl,sun,unisoft}!apple!mjohnson

OK.  Well, assuming that's the case, why not just write a Unix/MPW tool
that will create a stuffit archive.  Most Unix boxes have "compress"
for the Lempel-Ziv compression, so then it's just a matter of dummying
up some headers and concatenating the whole thing together.

By the way, the thought of Apple complaining because a developer
is charging what they think is too much for a product or service is
almost too funny to bear...  

( Please don't take that last crack personally, however, no matter
  how good it felt to write it... )

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