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- Path: sparky!uunet!world!siegel
- From: siegel@world.std.com (Rich Siegel)
- Subject: Re: Can't UnStuff DarkSide 3.2 From Sumex (Heed Nelp!)
- Message-ID: <C05q5p.Auy@world.std.com>
- Organization: GCC Technologies
- References: <58178@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1993Jan1.020105.9470@stortek.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 04:08:13 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1993Jan1.020105.9470@stortek.com> pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
- >kim@cs.umass.edu wrote:
- >: Just downloaded Darkside of the Mac 3.2 from sumex-aim, and un-binhexed
- >: it. Now I have Darkside3.2.sit, and I use UnStuffit Deluxe 2.0, and it
- >: says, "This item was compressed with a method this version does not handle.
- >: You may need a newer version."
- >
- >Try StuffIt Extractor 3.0.
- >
- >Curse Aladdin for planned obsolescence; a powerful argument for staying
- >with Compact Pro.
-
- How do you figure this? By definition, if there are architectural changes
- in a file format, an older version can't open files created by a newer
- version of the program, or if it can, it can't take advantage of the
- functionality offered by the newer version's format.
-
- This isn't 'planned obsolescence', this is progress.
-
- It's not a 'powerful argument for staying with Compact Pro', because
- Compact Pro is subject to the same limitations.
-
- There's no reason to 'curse Aladdin', since, after all, they provide a
- free expander for their current file format, as they always have. In
- fact, it's a pretty good reason to use the Aladdin format, since they
- haven't forgotten to support the users of the shareware StuffIt products.
- Whether this is smart PR or common sense is moot - the fact is that
- StuffIt Expander can unstuff any StuffIt file format back to the
- original.
-
- R.
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- Senior Software Engineer
- GCC Technologies
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