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Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test
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Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test


  • Subject: Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test
  • From: email@hidden
  • Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 21:52:20 +0200

On vendredi, ao{t 9, 2002, at 08:15 PM, Scott Anguish wrote:

On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 12:42 PM, Stiphane Sudre wrote:

This leads to some developers not creating compressed Disk Image since they have to manually modify them (add a background image, a custom icon, etc...).

Since DiskCopy creates 5,10,whatever MB Disk Image, you need to compress them.


excellent compression is built into this since 10.1. Sit is not necessary

hqx is never necessary. fix the server you store it on

Ok, from my lame 2 years experience of releasing Software packages on the Web, I learnt this:

- .hqx may be necessary when the download is not made on a Macintosh.
- .sit is the de-facto standard for compression on Mac OS (9/X). I'm not saying it's the best one or anything else, It's just the one users are used to.

In the tests I made, compression with Disk Image was worse than with .sit or .gz.

For the record, the format of archives I got from the apple dts is dmg.sit.zip.

For another record, this is an excerpt of an e-mail I got for one of the Freewares I'm working on. The archive format involved here is .dmg.gz:

"I have tried downloading your preference pane to try it out and it has produced the most bizarre effects I have ever seen on a Macintosh, since 1984. Specifically, when I expand your archive, it expands into a folder with a blank icon (title bar only). This folder, as soon as it is touched in icon mode, disappears from the desktop and cannot be found ever again. If the window is open in list mode, trying to turn down the disclosure triangle gives a permission error (as in "you don't have enough") followed by a similar disappearance.

The only deduction possible is that you have set up your archive such that the downloader has no permissions to anything except the overarching archive file. Once expanded, the file system deletes it for some unknown reason. It is not merely hidden -- I have tools to locate invisible files and it cannot be located at all.

I find this entire experience rather creepy and I don't think I'll repeat it."

This very same person wrote back later:

"Hi and thanks. I finally managed to get a proper file out of it by using Interarchy instead of a web browser. Just for future reference, browsers often have trouble with gnu-zipped files. I would create Stuffit archives if I were you."

Just my $0.02 with 2 years of dividends.
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