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In article <1992Aug20.030656.15265@ariel.ec.usf.edu> pollock@eggo.tmc.edu (Wayne Pollock) writes:
>Today I got my StuffIt Deluxe 3.01 and found it has some problems (minor)
>under System 6.  (For one thing, the disks that were shipped didn't have
>desktop files!)  
>
	Sorry about the desktop problem, the guy who builds are disks has
been appropriately flogged!!

>one thing I did notice is that if you do a get info on a
>compressed file, it accurately reports the compressed and uncompressed
>sizes!  (i.e., "302,126 bytes used, 173K on disk")  Unfortunately, doing
>the get info uncompresses the file as others have already noted.
>
	Yeah, blame the Finder.  The Finder opens a file (actually it
opens it twice!) in order to get all the "info" that it displays in the 
"Get Info" window.  Since SpaceSaver decompress files when they are opened,
we decompress them here too.  We are looking into ways to "determine" that 
the open is really for a "Get Info " and avoid the decompression, and also
give more info in the Get Info dialog.

>The StuffIt Converter application is dangerous!  It doesn't appear to be
>as well thought out as the rest of SD.  
>
	As the author of Converter, I have to agree!!  Converter did not go
through all the rigorous testing that the rest of the producdt did, and as such
we are finding that it has a couple of problems that can cause problems. As
Wayne suggested, you might want to be careful in your use of Converter until
we have a chance to update it (probably next week some time!).

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