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Article #5652Re: Packit I vs. II
From: ngg
Date: Wed, 14 May 1986 00:44
Date: Wed, 14 May 1986 00:44
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> I don't have any stats to report, but I agree with Brian in his general
> assessment of PackItII: I dislike it. I dislike the introductory message
> that it puts up. I dislike the frequent crashes. I dislike its
> behavior [sic] with DA's. I dislike having to be wary every time I use
> a program.
>
> None of these things were true of the original. I vote that either
> (i) we use regular PackIt more frequently, or (ii) that we get together
> and write a protocol for mashing files together, post it and *explicitly*
> make it public domain. Yes, I know, we don't need another "standard".
> But PackItII should be put out of business.
>
> Understand, I'm not out for Chesley's hide. I applaud his MacDeveloper
> efforts, and also PackIt. Not PackItII.
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> |
> Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois --+--
I think this whole thing with Packit II is getting carried away
I feel that a programmer hass the right to any opening screen
he wishes to create, it goes away with the click of the mouse
so you don't even have to look at it. I have never had it even
come close to crashing, so in my opinion must be something that
the operator is doing wrong. WHy be wary of an application that
sole purpose in life is to be a utility to pack an unpack files,
seems strange to me, I just use it and I'm done, no pain, no strain
PAckit II works extremely well, I have had compressions of up to
20% or more in some cases, I find that very worth while. Just
because someone decides to make some money off their work everyone
gets upset, sound like everyones opinion is "IF it isn't Free, its
not worth it" I feel that if it works well and the author did a
good job and its worth it, pay it. stop complaining, Packit II
is well worth the 10 bucks or so Chelsey wants for it, and
it a very solid program, works fine for me and I use it extensively
on my BBS to keep a variety of files packed together for transfers.
and it has saved me somewhere in the neighborhood of 800k or
more in file space due to the compression feature. I find
that well worth it.......
Norm Goodger
bridge2!ngg
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