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- From: leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
- Subject: Re: Stuffit extentions and ".z"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.173719.19289@netcom.com>
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- References: <cikPuB2w164w@phsbbs.princeton.nj.us> <ByC4Hp.HK0@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec8.023935.3077@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 17:37:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec8.023935.3077@ariel.ec.usf.edu> pollock@eggo.tmc.edu (Wayne Pollock) writes:
- >In article <ByC4Hp.HK0@news.cso.uiuc.edu> sasg0244@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steven Arthur Sivier) writes:
- >>marc@csufres.CSUFresno.EDU (Marc Matteo) writes:
- >>
- >>>If I'm not mistaken the ".z" suffix is for UNIX "compressed" files. I
- >>>don't know if there's a translator for them (there probably is) but there
- >>>is an application called MacCompress that will "undo" them. You can FTP
- >>>it from all the usual places.
- >
- >The latest version of StuffIt (3.0.3) now contains a UNIX Compress (file.Z)
- >translator. Still, MacCompress has a place on my hard disk: it is faster
- >than starting up StuffIt Deluxe (I suppose a really smart person would have
- >it on all the time, if one downloads/uploads as much as I do! :-),
- >automatically removes "file.Z" and replaces it with the uncompressed "file".
- >It can decompress a folder at a time, so you can get all your .Z files to
- >your mac and then decompress them in one fell swoop.
- >
- Well, can't say much about launch speed, but we made a VERY
- conscious decision to NOT replace the original like MacCompress does. The
- deleting of a user's data is not nice ;).
-
- >A nice feature in StuffIt 4 would be to unify the code for translators,
- >and make them available to magic menu. Then, any compressed file the SD
- >knows about can be expanded with one key press (or menu choice), i.e., the
- >Magic Menu Expand File. What could be sweeter than that?
- >
- We are working on a complete redesign of our "translator architecture"
- both for the future of StuffIt and also work with future add-ons from Apple.
- Being able to work with Magic is only a small part of what we hope to provide
- in the future.
-
- >PS Who beside myself misses the "UnStuff..." DA that was taken out of
- > StuffIt Deluxe 3? Speak up!
- >
- So far as I know, Wayne, just you ;) FWIW: the old one should work
- just fine since it just calls the StuffIt Engine.
-
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