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- From: deweeset@ptolemy3.rdrc.rpi.edu (Thomas E. DeWeese)
- Subject: Re: Stuffit Expander only watches disk it's on?
- Message-ID: <=kr20w#@rpi.edu>
- Keywords: stuffit compression aladdin
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- References: <1992Dec11.183239.27454@cirrus.com> <1992Dec11.225039.22041@netcom.com>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 05:18:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.225039.22041@netcom.com> leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol) writes:
- >>I experimented with Stuffit Expander 3.0's 'Watch folder' option, and
- >>it seems like it will only watch a folder if the program is on the
- >>same volume as the watch folder. Otherwise it does nothing.
- > It appears that this is indeed a bug in StuffIt Expander 3.0 and
- >will be corrected for the next rev. (3.0.1).
-
- One other little thing. The Watch Folder is worthless for my useage. I
- normally download files with a modem, thus it takes a significant amount of
- time to down load the files. DownLine (which unfortunately is cripled by not
- decompressing compactor archives :( ) also has a watch folder operation but
- unlike Stuffit Expander it will wait until the file is compleatly down
- loaded before it tries to decompress it. Obviously Stuffit Expander has
- a hard time uncompressing 1/3 of a file. If you could modify Stuffit
- Expander to make sure the file is done being written before you try to
- decompress it, I would consider trying it again. It would be nice to
- have one Application that undoes everything.
- Thomas DeWeese
- deweeset@rdrc.rpi.edu
-