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In article <1993Jan1.020105.9470@stortek.com> pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
>kim@cs.umass.edu wrote:
>: Just downloaded Darkside of the Mac 3.2 from sumex-aim, and un-binhexed 
>: it.  Now I have Darkside3.2.sit, and I use UnStuffit Deluxe 2.0, and it 
>: says, "This item was compressed with a method this version does not handle.  
>: You may need a newer version."
>
>Try StuffIt Extractor 3.0.
>
>Curse Aladdin for planned obsolescence; a powerful argument for staying
>with Compact Pro.

How do you figure this? By definition, if there are architectural changes
in a file format, an older version can't open files created by a newer
version of the program, or if it can, it can't take advantage of the 
functionality offered by the newer version's format.

This isn't 'planned obsolescence', this is progress.

It's not a 'powerful argument for staying with Compact Pro', because
Compact Pro is subject to the same limitations.

There's no reason to 'curse Aladdin', since, after all, they provide a
free expander for their current file format, as they always have. In 
fact, it's a pretty good reason to use the Aladdin format, since they
haven't forgotten to support the users of the shareware StuffIt products.
Whether this is smart PR or common sense is moot - the fact is that
StuffIt Expander can unstuff any StuffIt file format back to the 
original.

R.
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