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- From: pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
- Subject: Re: Stuffit Expander only watches disk it's on?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.071814.8576@stortek.com>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:18:14 GMT
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- Thomas E. DeWeese (deweeset@ptolemy3.rdrc.rpi.edu) wrote:
- :
- : 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.
-
- Even better would be behavior like that of GifWatcher, which paces itself
- so it never outruns the DL program. It decompresses the 1/3 it's got,
- then the next 1/3 when it arrives, and finishes when the final 1/3 gets
- there. What a concept!
-