Re: Mac silliness derided (offensive to some)

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From: Thomas Newton
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1987 04:44

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> PackIt II is FREE.  It is PackIt III that is shareware.

Wrong.  Both PackIt II and PackIt III are shareware.  It is PackIt I which is
free, and it can't decode the Huffman-compressed files which Packit-{II, III}
and Unpit 0.3 are capable of generating.  Posting PackIt-II-format compressed
files to the net was an issue back in the days before Don Brown (CE Software)
wrote a free PackIt-II file unpacker and I ported Unpit to the Mac.

> and unpit makes PackIt III files acceptable.

Actually, unpit doesn't make all PackIt III files acceptable.  It currently is
unable to deal with the encrypted files that PackIt III can generate, but this
doesn't really matter in the context of the net since only fools would encrypt
files that they wanted everyone to be able to download.  With encryption off,
PackIt III files look like PackIt II ones, which unpit knows how to decode.

                                        -- Thomas Newton

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Subject: Re: Mac silliness derided (offensive to some)
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