Re: why I like having a proprietary archive format

[sheldon@atlcom.net (Sheldon Simms)]

In article <5gql51$q3n$1@darla.visi.com>, nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) 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.

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.

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