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Article #21162Re: Reasons to avoid StuffIt.
From: Duane Williams
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1987 16:13
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1987 16:13
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| StuffIt adds yet another protocol to the minimum set. Why complicate | matters? It's too late. Have you looked at the files on GEnie and CompuServe lately? StuffIt is here to stay. The thing to do is to persuade the author to build BinHex into StuffIt; then you would have all the protocols in one program. | StuffIt is shareware (for the packer). Why use a shareware program when a | free one is available? StuffIt is free for the unpacker. No one is forced to use it for packing. | Why test a new program? Progress. Finally, StuffIt is a nifty compression and archiving program, even if you don't want to use it for binary file transfer. Duane Williams dtw@cs.cmu.edu
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