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

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From: Thomas E. DeWeese
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 05:18
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In article <1992Dec11.225039.22041@netcom.com> leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol) writes:
>>I experimented with Stuffit Expander 3.0's 'Watch folder' option, and
>>it seems like it will only watch a folder if the program is on the
>>same volume as the watch folder. Otherwise it does nothing.  
>	It appears that this is indeed a bug in StuffIt Expander 3.0 and 
>will be corrected for the next rev. (3.0.1).

  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.
						Thomas DeWeese
deweeset@rdrc.rpi.edu
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