Re: .sea decoder for //GS

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <5gq0os$gav@news.ysu.edu>,
Adalbert Goertz <be404@yfn.ysu.edu> wrote:
>I want to download mac files .sea (like pictures in mac format) and see
>whether my GS can use them. 

   And what we've been trying to get across to you is that since
whatever idiot is trying to pack a picture file in an archive file
format that's usable only on Macs, you're going to have to turn your
whining at *them*, not us. If the author wants to make their stuff
totally system specific, that is purely *THEIR* problem, and they
should be facing the consequences.

   Once again, packing data files in proprietary archive formats and
they trying to get others to use them is a STUPID idea. If you want to
have a format that you're sending pictures only to your grandmother's
cat, fine. If you're trying to get lots of people around the world to
use them, use a format that's (1) publically documented or (2) source
code is available, so that if an unpacker does not exist, it can be
written easily.

   Adalbert--- it'd be more productive for you to spend your time
bugging (1) those who packed the pictures in Mac .SEAs and (2)
whomever's not releasing compression specs for the rest of the Mac
compressors. 

Nathan Mates
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