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On 8/25/92@6:43:48 PM, leonardr said regarding 'StuffIt Converter (was Re: More
SpaceSaver) ': 

  lr> From: leonardr@ccs.itd.umich.edu
  lr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps 
  lr> Organization: Campus Computing Sites, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 
  lr> In article <1992Aug20.030656.15265@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
  lr> pollock@eggo.tmc.edu (Wayne Pollock) writes:
  lr> 
 
  
  lr> 	Yeah, blame the Finder.  The Finder opens a file (actually
  lr> it 
  lr> opens it twice!) in order to get all the "info" that it displays in
  lr> the 
  lr> "Get Info" window.  Since SpaceSaver decompress files when they are
  lr> opened, 
  lr> we decompress them here too.  We are looking into ways to "determine"
  lr> that 
  lr> the open is really for a "Get Info " and avoid the decompression, and
  lr> also
  lr> give more info in the Get Info dialog.
  lr> 

      I presume then that Aladdin is aware that in the Finder (viewing by name)
that listing a directory by clicking on the triangle causes all of the files
within that folder to be decompressed.  I presume that that's because of the
need to get the icons out of the rforks.  Still not cool, though.

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

      Dunno about dangerous--all it does for me is make a temp folder in my
System folder, decompresses the files to that...and stop.  Always.  
BTW--what happened to the manual's index?  And the uuencode/uudecode
translator?
If you're updating these...problems, how will the updating be handled?

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  lr> Leonard Rosenthol		  Internet: leonardr@ccs.itd.umich.edu
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