Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test
Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test
- Subject: Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test
- From: Pejvan BEIGUI <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 00:25:27 +0200
On 10/08/02 23:57, "Paul Fox" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
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> Much more important difference is that .gz is an open format and can be
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> unpacked whatever way I (the user) want: in Terminal, or via Opener.
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> With .sit, I am stick with the disaster of proprietary and bug-swarming
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> Stuffit Expander.
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> Ondra Hada
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> OCSoftware: email@hidden http://www.ocs.cz
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> private email@hidden http://www.ocs.cz/oc
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Tis a shame the Mac doesnt support .bz2 (bzip2 compressed) files as
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standard. Everyone is moving to it and it gives maybe 30%
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better compression than gzip.
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Hi !
bz2 comes standard with Jagwire
http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/unix.html :
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Newer applications expect functions such as ncurses9 and bzip29 and the
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updated UNIX libraries now include them
Stuffit-expander decompresses bz2 since a looooong time
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sit/hqx are not good compressors.
hqx and bin are not compressors :-)
Sit, as already said, is a total disaster ;-)
Not only the compression isn't as good as we can expect, especially when
regarding the price, but whole stuffit deluxe is so poorly featured and
badly coded :-(
IMHO, aladdinsys sucks.
Pejvan
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