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- From: jayb@laplace.MATH.ColoState.EDU (Jay Bourland)
- Subject: Re: KUDOS to STUFFIT EXPANDER- the best of the best!
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- In-Reply-To: v065hjku@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu's message of 8 Jan 93 16:47:00 GMT
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:43:23 GMT
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- I like this program as well. In fact I've set my terminal program
- (zterm, which is also great) to download text files with type SITx.
- This way I just double click on the file and stuffit-expander does the
- rest.
-
- >
- > One note: There is an interesting bug (?) in the program. Every once in a while
- > a few files will be dehqxed but not decompressed. So I have to go back
- > and re-drag and drop these. They always decompress without problem on the
- > second drop. Perhaps there is a problem with very large batches? But the
- > MOST interesting thing about this bug is that the file which are skipped
- > are ALWAYS stuffit files! The cpt files always decompress on the first go...
- > You make the call.
-
- I also have seen this. The files were only un-binhexed were always
- sea's or a file for which I had another decompression utility. Almost
- as if sit-ex didn't want to step on anyone's toes...
-
-
- --
- Jay Bourland
- jayb@Math.ColoState.EDU
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