When Apple incorporates archive functionality into the Finder and diskutil, and then *drops* Expander from their shipping OS, then it ceases to be 'the standard.'
Stuffit has gone the way of MSIE 5 for Mac, and Allume / SmithMicro know it. That's why there is all this hullybaloo about Jpeg compression and jargonese about mobile media. As a photographer I could care less, and the LAST thing I want to do is diddle with compression and metadata when they have these little discs called DVDs I can burn to. Oh, and where's the support for RAW? Allume doesn't get it.
Then there are the Comic Book Archive standards like CBR and CBZ. What are these? Renamed *.rar and *.zip, that's what! Win32 and Mac users are using these now [check out FFVIEW for a savvy viewer for OSX]. Allume doesn't address this either.
DiskUtil makes encrypted disk images that can then be zipped and mailed. I'm sure there's also Automator support there as well.
I haven't used *.sitx in a long time. So why do we still need sitx? Um. We don't.
I find Stuffit's UnRAR routine to be slower than either MacPAR Deluxe or UnrarX.
Whether you like it or not, now and in the Macintel future, zip is the way to go.
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Respectfully, I disagree with you.When Apple incorporates archive functionality into the Finder and diskutil, and then *drops* Expander from their shipping OS, then it ceases to be 'the standard.'
Stuffit has gone the way of MSIE 5 for Mac, and Allume / SmithMicro know it. That's why there is all this hullybaloo about Jpeg compression and jargonese about mobile media. As a photographer I could care less, and the LAST thing I want to do is diddle with compression and metadata when they have these little discs called DVDs I can burn to. Oh, and where's the support for RAW? Allume doesn't get it.
Then there are the Comic Book Archive standards like CBR and CBZ. What are these? Renamed *.rar and *.zip, that's what! Win32 and Mac users are using these now [check out FFVIEW for a savvy viewer for OSX]. Allume doesn't address this either.
DiskUtil makes encrypted disk images that can then be zipped and mailed. I'm sure there's also Automator support there as well.
I haven't used *.sitx in a long time. So why do we still need sitx? Um. We don't.
I find Stuffit's UnRAR routine to be slower than either MacPAR Deluxe or UnrarX.
Whether you like it or not, now and in the Macintel future, zip is the way to go.
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Tuesday, September 13 2005 @ 02:52 PM PDT