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In article <1992Nov4.090914.1@tesla.njit.edu> erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold) writes:
>	I'd be willing to make the tradeoff.  More to the point though I'd be 
>willing to make a much larger trade-off to keep lists of different files to be 
>compressed so that I could decide on a file-by-file basis which files I wanted 
>to compress and which I didn't.  
>
	But why would you want to make a 'list', when there are MUCH better
ways to do this.  

>	Therefore I want to use transparent compression to 
>compress only applications and SUPPORT FILES.  For example
>I want to compress Microsoft Word documents that contain manuals for freeware 
>or Readme files but not Microsoft Word documents that contain the latest, 
>unreleased version of the FAQ.  And I don't want to have to reorganize my hard 
>disk to accomplish this.   
>
	That's fine - work the way you want...

>I don't use System 7 so labels aren't an option, and 
>even if I did they're still too clumsy.  
>
	I have to disagree that labels are clumsy - they work quite nicely for
many users as a way to specify what files to compress and/or never compress.
However, they are not for everybody.

>I want to tell StuffIt SpaceSaver or 
>MDS or AutoDoubler or whatever to compress (and automatically decompress and 
>recompress) File A and have it rememeber that in the future without worrying 
>about the side effects this might have on any other file on my disk with 
>possibly the same type, creator, label, and even contents.  No 
>currently shipping utility let's you do this.  
>
	NOT TRUE!  You can do this with StuffIt SpaceSaver!  By simply 
choosing the files/folders that you want to compress and choosing "Compress"
from our Magic Menu, the selected items will becomes smaller WITHOUT any
change to their names, labels, etc.  As these files are used, they will be
expanded on the fly (as they should) and recompressed when done (or when
the machine is idle, depending on your settings).

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