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Re: Packit I vs. II

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From: borton
Date: Wed, 21 May 1986 21:35
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In article <189@bridge2.UUCP> ngg@bridge2.UUCP (Norman Goodger) writes:
[...]
>	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

The very first time I tried PackIt II I was cured.  It has a SIZE -1 resource
specifying that it only needs 100K to run.  Very nice.  I ran it as such,
under Switcher 4.6, and it *consistently* bombed on the second MouseDown.
At the time I was running HFS on 64K ROMs with an HD20.

It ran properly when not under Switcher.  It ran partially if I gave it a
larger partition (I tried 128K and 200K).  Partially = works for a while and
then bombs in the middle of doing something.

If a program won't work, I won't use it, let alone pay for it.  No PackIt II 
for me...

--Chris
-- 
Chris Borton, UC San Diego Undergraduate CS; Micro Consultant, UCSD
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From: borton@sdcc3.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Packit I vs. II
Message-ID: <3345@sdcc3.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-May-86 17:35:34 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 21 17:35:34 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 24-May-86 21:24:34 EDT
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Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center
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