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From: ART100@PSUVM.BITNET (Andy Tefft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Shrinkit/Binary II stuff
Message-ID: <89147.141541ART100@PSUVM>
Date: 27 May 89 18:15:41 GMT
References: <8905242324.AA24622@batman.moravian.edu>
Organization: Penn State University - Center for Academic Computing
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In article <8905242324.AA24622@batman.moravian.edu>, nicholaA@moravian.EDU says:

>But if the attributes are not kept intact, whole civilizations will vanish
>beneath tidal waves, plagues will visit us once again, and entire
>cities will be swallowed by the earth.  We can avoid this calamity by
>preparing to standardize Now!

But why the heck do you need the attributes of the archive to be
maintained?  I can see if you're using the program to keep archives
for yourself. But in that case you won't be uploading or downloading
it, will you? I thought one of the purposes of the archive in the
first place was to maintain the attributes of the files inside. Once
I get the files out of an archive I get off the net, I delete the archive.
Who cares what filetype it was, what its date was, as long as I can
unpack it once! And if I cared about the date, it would be the date I
downloaded it (so I could see how long it's been sitting there waiting
for me to do something about it) rather than its original creation date.
Face it, somewhere along the line, when you move a file to a non-apple,
it's going to lose its apple attributes. You can't go on enveloping things
indefinitely. Bundle it up once in an archive whose attributes aren't
important, and be done with it! (exactly what shrinkit and BLU do now)
The important attributes, those of the files inside, will still be preserved.

Andy