Distributing Rev Stacks (was The age of user-translatable applications...

[Troy Rollins]

On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 06:16  PM, Rob Cozens wrote:

> And I still feel this is the preferred approach.  Even if Stuffit's 
> problems have been fixed since I last distributed .sits, that still 
> means I'm telling the potential downloader "You will have to go 
> somewhere else and get some other software to open and use my files if 
> you don't have version x of program y installed on your computer."

Stuffit Deluxe has indeed been plagued with this problem. Stuffit 
expander has not. The latest (whatever is most current at the time) 
version of stuffit expander will open any version of .sit file I have 
ever encountered. Expander has consistently had this backward 
compatibility. Deluxe has not. Expander is free for both Mac and 
Windows. Incidentally, it will also expand .zip files.

In my experience, the norm for software distribution is .sit on the mac, 
and .zip on Windows.

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Troy
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