Distribution format (was Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test)
Distribution format (was Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test)
- Subject: Distribution format (was Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test)
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- Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 12:38:54 +0200
On samedi, ao{t 10, 2002, at 07:54 AM, Scott Anguish wrote:
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.
When OS updates are commonly 20 MB large, I'm not sure the user is going
to complain if the file is 20 MB or 24 MB.
-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.
There's a little difference between Theory and practice.
I don't believe in fairy tales, I only trust support story.
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