Re: Packit I vs. II

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From: Thomas Newton
Date: Tue, 06 May 1986 21:11

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I agree.  A similar thing happened with BinHex 4.0 and BinHex 5.0 (the former
is free, the latter is $10 shareware), but I suspect the motivation there was
to encourage people to use terminal programs with built-in MacBinary support.
BinHex 5 is redundant if one has BinHex 4 and a MacBinary terminal program, so
one can ignore it and use the free version without missing anything.  The same
does not seem to be true of Packit II -- I have not seen any free programs for
the Mac that can be used to bypass it.

                                        -- Thomas Newton

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Subject: Re: Packit I vs. II
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