Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!vlsi3b15!batman!nicholaA From: nicholaA@batman.moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: NuPak 2.0 Summary: No, actually.. Message-ID: <1207@batman.moravian.EDU> Date: 13 Mar 90 05:41:23 GMT References: <25fb4fd0.5f7@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> <104*delaneyg@wnre.aecl.ca> <14458@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Organization: Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA Lines: 51 In article <14458@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, kadickey@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kent Andrew Dickey) writes: >>This is like taking the work of other's and trying to make a buck on it. All >>the work on shrinkit (which this is obviously based on) has been done by >>Andy. Let use not forget the problems that ANDY went through to >>start to go for a comercial product with L & L. The only thing you appear >>to be getting it stuffit. My suggestion is send the money to Andy he did >>most of the work anyway. Remember the Great Flap before!!! ... and zoom! ... off we went... > This NuPak thing looks like a really bad deal... Not really.. Joshua seemes to have spent at least 4-5 months writing it. He uses C, so he technically has an unfair advantage because I'm writing everything in assembler, but then again, my stuff is faster. > Andy has been working very hard on ShrinkIt 3.0, and GS/ShrinkIt.... Yes. That's definitely true. :-) > this competition might be enough to make Andy stop his work. It's a bad > feeling in business when a competitor beats you out with a product, but > this is even worse since Andy has been doing it for FREE! Not really... I don't "need" the money to survive (I will need money once I graduate, but that's what "real jobs" are for). At this point, I just want to get gs/shrinkit FINISHED and out the door. I've worked so hard on it for so long that after a while it starts to become unbearable. At least ShrinkIt 3.0 is going out... (hooooo ray) > I just hope this NuPak doesn't steal any of Andy's code...that would be > really lame. No, actually Kent, he's using your C code... Andy McFadden's NuLIB code. Well, even if Joshua had dissassembled all of shrinkit and had used the standard decoder (because nupak 2.0 is FAR faster than nupak 1.0 in unpacking), there wouldn't be any way that I could prove it and it's not worth pursuing anyway since shrinkit and gs/shrinkit are free programs. I just hope that Joshua doesn't start encoding files in some non-standard format that gs/shrinkit can't decode... that would confuse a whole lot of people... and *REALLY* annoy me. >Kent Dickey andy -- Yeah!