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Re: Reasons to avoid StuffIt.

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From: Garth Snyder
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1987 21:37
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I am writing to throw in my two cents about stuffit.  First of all, I
think stuffit is beautifully executed and reliable.  There is no question
in my mind that it beats Packit hands down.

I really wish the author of stuffit had gone whole hog and included a
couple of other features.  These would not have been trivial, but would
have made stuffit a guaranteed smash shareware success.  To wit:

    1) It should subsume all the functions of Binhex 4.0.
    2) It should have complete (encryption, etc.) Packit compatibility.
    3) It should do DES encrption.
    4) It should be able to pack up <complete> folders.  It will pack all
       simple files in a given folder now, but should be able to do
       recursive folder packing.
    5) It's contents display window should have a neat-o way of dealing 
       with #4, i.e. selectively show contents of folders.

Of these, #4 is the one that makes me drool the most.

If the author of stuffit wants to add these features or someone wants to
write yet another program that can handle this type of thing in as classy
a way as stuffit, I promise to buy it.

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Garth Snyder            UUCP: {seismo!bpa,rutgers!liberty}!swatsun!garth
Swarthmore College      ARPA: garth@boulder.colorado.edu
Swarthmore, PA 19081    ALSO: {hao,nbires}!boulder!garth
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From: garth@swatsun (Garth Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Reasons to avoid StuffIt.
Message-ID: <1368@pompeii.swatsun.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 16:37:05 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  4 16:37:05 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Nov-87 18:07:55 EST
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Organization: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
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Keywords: stuffit packit binhex unpit