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- From: glf@oclc.org (Greg Feldman-Hill)
- Subject: Re: Experience with StuffIt Spacesaver?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.150629.16882@oclc.org>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:06:29 GMT
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- suhler@pollux.usc.edu (Paul Suhler) writes:
- : Has anyone tried out StuffIt Spacesaver? I'd like to run it on a
- : Mac II under 7.01 and maybe even on a PB 100.
- :
- : Thanks,
- :
- : Paul Suhler
-
- I just bought StuffIt Deluxe (which includes SpaceSaver). It is quite
- an impressive package. For the money, it is one of the best pieces of
- software I've purchased.
-
- I'm running it on a Mac LCII, 6 Meg, System 7.0.1/TuneUp 1.1.1. with
- an 80 Meg hard drive.
-
- SpaceSaver can operate both invisibly or by direct manual control. In
- fact, there are many ways to automatically compress files & folders &
- disks. You can use MagicMenu (a new finder menu) to do the job, or
- you can simply flag files & folders with special (user defined) prefix
- or suffix on the names. I've set mine up to compress anything with
- (s) on the end. You can also select items NOT to compress ever (using
- similar methods). What I think is even better is that if I name (or
- rename) a file with '.sit' on the end, SpaceSaver automatically
- creates a StuffIt archive out it, without loading the StuffIt
- application. Very cool! Of course, how it handles stuffing and
- unstuffing of archives is user configurable as well.
-
- And it is very fast. I don't have a hot-rod of a Mac, but compression
- of a a quarter-meg folder takes but a second or two. And
- decompression of a file or application during open is seemingly
- sub-second. I am getting somewhere between 30% to 40% savings on most
- files.
-
- The combination of StuffIt and SpaceSaver make this a great utility.
- It is fast, and is as transparent as you choose it to be. I recommend
- it most highly.
-
- FYI, I'm just a new & very happy Aladdin customer.
-
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