Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test
Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test
- Subject: Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test
- From: Paul Fox <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 00:01:05 +0100
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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 !
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bz2 comes standard with Jagwire
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Yee-haa! Now just need to tell all my (potential) customers to upgrade.
Oh well. Better late than never.
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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
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Stuffit-expander decompresses bz2 since a looooong time
And how do I run that from the shell prompt? That does sound good tho.
Can I create a .dmg.bz2 and Finder will do the right thing?
Yippee. I do look forward to jagwire.
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[snip]
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> sit/hqx are not good compressors.
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hqx and bin are not compressors :-)
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Sit, as already said, is a total disaster ;-)
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Not only the compression isn't as good as we can expect, especially when
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regarding the price, but whole stuffit deluxe is so poorly featured and
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badly coded :-(
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IMHO, aladdinsys sucks.
Shame. They have been at it a long time. Arent they the Ghostscript people?
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Pejvan
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