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Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test


  • Subject: Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test
  • From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 01:54:17 -0400

On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 04:24 PM, David Rehring wrote:

But from the end-user's POV [this is the Macintosh platform after all]:

-.sit.hqx is free to decompress

And hey, it only makes the file about 20% larger with that un-necessary step to encode it 7-bit clean.

-most users know what .sit/.hqx files are [that they are somehow 'packaged'
versions of actual file]. '.gz' is a relatively unknown extension in the
Mac experience

then they need to learn. hqx is an abomination that should have disappeared 5 years ago around the time that uuencoding did.
-most users know what to do with .sit.hqx. A MUCH smaller set of users know
what to do with .gz [even if double clicking on it would result in it being
decompressed].


Next used to call their compression format .compressed. It was just tar.Z, but it was user friendly.
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