Re: Reasons to avoid StuffIt.

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From: Duane Williams
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1987 04:37

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| >4) They are stable.  BinHex4.0 and UnPit have been in use long enough to
| >demonstrate that they work.  Why test a new program?
| 
| Stuffit is a not in beta test, it has gone through testing before release,
| it's stable.

Actually, StuffIt is still under development and the latest version (1.13)
on GEnie crashes when you issue the "Generate report..." command.  A new
version that corrects this bug and adds some useful new features is due out
this weekend.

Duane Williams
dtw@cs.cmu.edu

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Subject: Re: Reasons to avoid StuffIt.
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