Re: why I like having a proprietary archive format

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <sheldon-2003970641260001@lpm2-2.atlcom.net>,
Sheldon Simms <sheldon@atlcom.net> wrote:
>
>> However, the second you're trying to use a
>> proprietary format on *public* data transfer, you're alienating
>> folks. Use public formats in public. End of story.
>
>Actually the real answer is:
>
>Use Stuffit when your archive is meant for Mac users, otherwise you're
>making life hard for yourself and your target audience.

Well yeah, didn't I mention that Stuffit (the app) can do lots more archive
formats than just Stuffit (the file)?

>When your wish the archive to be accessible to a wider audience, choose
>a format that seems likely to be the most accessible to the target
>audience, which fortunately Stuffit (the program) allows you to do.
>
>There's no reason for non-Mac users to gripe and moan about how they
>can't unpack a Stuffit archive. Obviously if the archiver cared about
>non-Mac users being able to access the archive, he wouldn't have used
>Stuffit.

Someone told me there's a windows app that can do Stuffit files too.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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