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From: mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Online documentation for Mac progra
Message-ID: <28349@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 4 Apr 89 05:36:47 GMT
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In article <1120@esquire.UUCP> sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:
>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... )
>
We thought about doing that (unofficially, of course), but decided to help
more people (can't force everyone to purchase and use MPW) by licensing
StuffIt for all of Apple.  This way Apple recognizes and uses a "de facto"
standard (not arguing its good points or bad) which has been set by the
Macintosh users of the world (not forced upon you by Apple) as well as
"helping" the developer (Ray Lau in this case) make a few dollars instead
of trying to shut him out by rolling our own.  Granted, a tool would be
useful, and I won't count it out, but it's just not a high priority right
now.

As for the cost, the delay is more on bureaucracy than cost.  You know, 
that's one of the other negative effects of "success..."

:-)

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