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Here's an update to keep the world informed about SpaceSaver and Aladdin.

An Aladdin tech called me today and we straightened some things out. 

1) Retrospect will save the files on tape as SPSV/SIT! files because
they really are SPSV/SIT! files. SpaceSaver fools the Finder and other
applications into thinking they are are the Word files, applications,
or whatever they were before you compressed them.  

When you restore files from a backup to your hard disk, they will
appear to be the original files if SpaceSaver is running, and all will
be well. If SpaceSaver is not running, they will get SpaceSaver icons
and they can be uncompressed manually by using StuffIt Deluxe 3.0 (or,
I suppose, the Magic Menu).  

This all seems well and good, however:

2) SpaceSaver really was screwing up my system.  Aladdin now realizes
there are some easy-to-fix interaction problems with Retrospect, and
one side effect on my computer was that SpaceSaver would not recognize
the compressed files properly anymore, and opening them in StuffIt
Deluxe yielded empty files.  However, NO DATA WAS LOST.  I was simply
inconvienced, so I don't think Aladdin should get a bad reputation
just yet :-).

I think Aladdin will get SpaceSaver working well soon.  I hope they
do; it seems like a great gadget.

David Fry                                  fry@math.harvard.EDU
Division of Applied Sciences               fry@huma1.bitnet
Harvard University                      ...!harvard!huma1!fry
Cambridge, MA  02138