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Re: Naming your Stuffit-packages

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From: Mike Ching
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 1990 08:38
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In article <14573@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
>
>... and I'd like to suggest that people putting together Stuffit files
>please refrain form sticking everything into a folder.  If it's in a
>folder, and it takes a half-hour to unStuff, then it'll report that
>it's 0% complete until the very end.  When it's only dealing with
>separate files, its report of how far it still has to go is more
>accurate.
>


To each his own. Since the majority of what is posted doesn't take a
half-hour to unstuff, I find the progress indicator to be of limited
value. The answer is probably an improved UnStuffit but that will be
reserved for the commercial version in all likelyhood.

mike ching
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From: ching@pepsi.amd.com (Mike Ching)
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Subject: Re: Naming your Stuffit-packages
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