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Article #7331Re: Compact Pro 1.30 vs. StuffIt Deluxe 2.0.1 (performance)
From: Piper Keairnes
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 1991 14:18
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 1991 14:18
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owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen) writes: >Anyway, I personally WANT a clean simple program. Many of StuffIt's options I >don't need, and some are intrinsically useless (all the different options for >how to stuff, when most of them are markedly inferior to Compactor's, both in >speed and % compression). I like Compactor, and have gratefully dumped StuffIt >(although I paid for it, sigh). I'd switch in a minute if there were some Finder based extension added to Compactor, just like the INIT Magic Menu that interfaces Stuffit Deluxe. Until Compactor's ease of use reaches that level, there is no need to switch. -- Piper Keairnes * piper@s5000.rsvl.unisys.com * Purdue Univ. Unisys Corporation * uunet!s5000.rsvl.unisys.com!piper * Computing Center Open Software Products * 1410 Carling Dr, St Paul, MN 55108 * Consultant
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!shelby!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!atc!s5000!piper From: piper@s5000.RSVL.UNISYS.COM (Piper Keairnes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Compact Pro 1.30 vs. StuffIt Deluxe 2.0.1 (performance) Message-ID: <107@s5000.RSVL.UNISYS.COM> Date: 15 Feb 91 14:18:12 GMT References: <798@sousa.enet.dec.com> <16318@milton.u.washington.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Unisys - Roseville, MN Lines: 17