Re: AutoArc vs HardPressed

[fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)]

In article <1errnkINNgaf@uwm.edu> greis@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (I buy VW & Porsche Stuff - Mail Me) writes:
>              Andy, mayhaps you can tell me if HardPressed does a
>might bit better job than A.A. does!

Well, I am trying. :-)

>                                     When packing a folder, such as
>AppleWorks GS, each file in the folder is packed individually. When
>it comes time to run AWGS, only the main file is called and unpacked,
>and then the program crashes.

Haven't tried it with AWGS yet.

>                              I would have liked to see AA check
>to see if AppleWorks.GS was in my archive, and then unpack the
>whole durn archive and run the file. As it is, I could only unpack
>the file that I want to address, and that doesn't save that much
>room in most cases.

I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at here.  Do you want something
which will work like ShrinkIt and store multiple files in one archive?

>How about TrueType Fonts? Another good candidate for packing.

Haven't tried those either.  I've heard that they don't compress all that
well, however.  I need to get WestCode to send a copy of Pointless v2.0
over (which, by all accounts, is amazing).

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fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
[ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]