🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.sys.mac.apps
Article #9328

Re: Stuffit Expander only watches disk it's on?

#9328
From: Paul Gilmartin
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:18
17 lines
1577 bytes
Thomas E. DeWeese (deweeset@ptolemy3.rdrc.rpi.edu) wrote:
: 
:   One other little thing.  The Watch Folder is worthless for my useage.  I 
: normally download files with a modem, thus it takes a significant amount of
: time to down load the files.  DownLine (which unfortunately is cripled by not
: decompressing compactor archives :( ) also has a watch folder operation but 
: unlike Stuffit Expander it will wait until the file is compleatly down 
: loaded before it tries to decompress it.  Obviously Stuffit Expander has 
: a hard time uncompressing 1/3 of a file.  If you could modify Stuffit 
: Expander to make sure the file is done being written before you try to 
: decompress it, I would consider trying it again.  It would be nice to 
: have one Application that undoes everything.

Even better would be behavior like that of GifWatcher, which paces itself
so it never outruns the DL program.  It decompresses the 1/3 it's got,
then the next 1/3 when it arrives, and finishes when the final 1/3 gets
there.  What a concept!
Technical Details
Message-ID: <1992Dec21.071814.8576@stortek.com>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!stortek!sanitas!pg
References: <=kr20w#@rpi.edu>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!stortek!sanitas!pg
From: pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
Subject: Re: Stuffit Expander only watches disk it's on?
Message-ID: <1992Dec21.071814.8576@stortek.com>
Sender: usenet@stortek.com
Nntp-Posting-Host: sanitas.stortek.com
Organization: Storage Technology Corp.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
References: <=kr20w#@rpi.edu>
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:18:14 GMT
Lines: 17