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In article <1992Apr8.135755.13585@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Jim.Matthews@dartmouth.edu (Jim Matthews) writes:
 >                                                                Dik Winter  
Seeing my name I do not fail to follow-up.
 > has taken them off the hook as far as Compact Pro and StuffIt! Deluxe 2.0  
 > are concerned, by figuring out the formats and releasing source code; but  
 > now there's StuffIt! Deluxe 3.0 to deal with.  The net will be reluctant  
 > to take advantage of the progress made in SD 3.0 unless Alladin makes it  
 > easy for people to write their own expanders.
Do not forget DiskDoubler archives, they are also emerging.  While I do
not yet unpack SD 3.0 archives (never have seen one), I do most DD archives
routinely.  But I think it is better to press the people involved to make
methods to decompress their archives public.  I think this is to the
benefit of all.  First for the user, when he sends a file he has not to
worry whether the other end can decompress it properly (and mind: the
other end need not be a Mac user).  But also for the companies that sell
their archivers.  People are more likely to buy one when they have not to
worry about such things.  It is also beneficial for those people that
maintain fileservers for Mac's.  It is a much less trouble when they
can unpack archives on their server (which need not be a Mac).
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dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj  amsterdam, nederland
dik@cwi.nl