Re: Wolfenstein 3D levels

[Scott Wendt <malfunct@cs.montana.edu>]

Nathan Mates wrote:

> >many are compressed with a version of StuffIt which ShrinkIt GS 1.1

I wouldn't expect that a IIgs decompression program would open a macintosh
archive type. I feel lucky when I can unarchive a file meant for a different
platform of computer.

>    And that's the a problem caused by using proprietary data formats
> for public data transfers. And, that's not more secure, not more
> usable, not more logical. If people were educated as to the
> consequences of using such a non-portable data format, then hopefully
> they wouldn't put up such files for public consumption.

the .sit format is highly portable, between macintosh computers that is, which
is what is was designed for and doing a good job of being.

> Why should anyone use
> oddball proprietary formats, unless they don't know better and have
> been suckered by drag-and-drool GUI interfaces

Ok, lets think about this a little bit. .zip is a PC (mainly) format, .sit is a
macintosh format, .tar and .gz (and others) are unix archive formats, I am new
to this but it seems .shk is an apple II compression format. I mean gosh, like
only a couple years ago it was unthought of for files to be read cross platform
(at least to most home users). Ok so to the point of this post, which is not to
flame Nathan (though with recent firey posts I wouldn't feel bad doing it) but
to say that whoever compressed an apple II program in a macintosh compression
format was silly.

Scott