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Wish List for Stuffit

#39608
From: Matt Mora
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1989 16:48
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In article <5960@homxc.ATT.COM> roger@homxc.ATT.COM (Another Technical Editor)
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>
>I'd be happy to see a built-in procedure that:
>  - Unhexes everything in the folder that can be unhexed.
>  - UnPacks everything in the folder that can be unpacked.
>  - UnStuffs everything in the folder that can be unstuffed.
>  - Extracts everything from each archive that can be, etc.
>  - Doesn't bother telling me the Lempel-Ziv algorithm
>    was used. (Like I care.)
>  - Lets me know when it's done.
>
>Roger Tait                             ..att!homxc!roger
>AT&T Bell Labs Technical Publications        Holmdel, NJ
>"Teenage Mutant Ninja Technical Writers."

Here's a wish list that I would like to see.
Let's forget about all this Unhexing,unpacking... on the
mac side. How about stuffit including its own terminal 
emulator, select the files on the host side, and while 
downloading,do all the conversion so that only the
actual files in their native format end up on my
hard disk (not x number of mutant forms of the same
files). 

Sorry, just day dreaming!  

(and yes I did send my shareware fee)

Matt Mora
SRI International
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Matthew Mora
SRI International                            stores@SRI.COM
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From: stores@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Wish List for Stuffit
Message-ID: <28717@sri-unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 17 Mar 89 16:48:20 GMT
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Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA.
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