Re: Poosting files to FTP site

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1 total messages Started by David Valentine Sat, 12 Jun 1993 21:23

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Author: David Valentine
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 21:23

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>>Please, no self extracting code.
>
>Why not?

Self extracting code adds about 12k to 20k a file. For two different
versions, that's about  30k a style. For a 100 styles, that's 3000k, or
three megabytes.
        Since styles are about 7 or 8k, self extracting code would make the
style archives, bigger than the styles themselves.

B) the first time I got a PKzip sea, it wasn't named a .EXE. I couldn't
figure out why I got an error about zip skipping the first part of the
file. Then I changed the name to file.EXE, ran Soft PC (a pc emulator),
executed the file, and discovered it was a self extracting archive. A PC
user gettting a mac sea,would have even more problems.

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