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From: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: NuPak 2.0
Message-ID: <14228@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 90 12:20:36 GMT
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In article <1990Mar12.202529.12084@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> cs122aw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
>In article <14458@phoenix.Princeton> (Kent Dickey) writes:
>>This NuPak thing looks like a really bad deal...
>
>Indeed it does.  It doesn't even support the classic IIs!  ProDOS 8 may not
[slurp]
>
>>Andy has been working very hard on ShrinkIt 3.0, and GS/ShrinkIt....
>>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!
[slurp]

Ya know, the moment I saw of that, I thought of the Unix program called
Unsit that lets you unstuff Stuffit archives on unixy systems.  Although 
I haven't done it yet, it might be real interesting to port the code
over to APW C (or whatever) and make it work.  

<heh heh heh...>

[slurp]
>                                                                      If you
>get hold of a copy of NuPak, don't send in your shareware fee.  If you haven't
>gotten a copy, don't bother.

Uhm.. if you're gonna do this, remember to not use it.  You're legally bound
to send the shareware fee in if you use the program.

> I'm sure someone else (you listening, Andy?) is
>bright enough to give us BinHex and StuffIt some other way, should there be a
>need for it.  (You can always live without, of course, and send uncompressed
>files!)

Well, the hard (?) part is done; there are already C versions of the above
two, all they need is porting over.  (I'll get to this eventually, if no one
beats me to it.  It be a good excuse to learn C, anyway. :)

>Scott Alfter

--Chan
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