On Feb 2, 2011, at 7:50 PM, Brian ONeal wrote: > The built in archiver has no features other than just compressing.
The built-in archiver is just a script calling the standard zip/unzip compression utilities. On the command line, zip has a bewildering array of features that go far beyond what StuffIt shows. It seems that somebody ought to have created a good Applescript gui for it. I've tried a little free program called Keka, but I think it only compresses. In the other direction, Zipeg does a lot of the unzip stuff pretty well, including previews of files in an archive. I usually use it from the command line because Apple's command in the Finder includes some extra Mac stuff in the archives that can confuse unwary Windows users. > So fellow experts, in these days of cheap storage, should I even worry about > compression? I work as an editor on a mathematics journal. Authors and other editors are constantly sending files back and forth. Zip is necessary to keep related files together in a single package for emailing. Otherwise, stuff gets really confusing in a hurry when I'm caught in a whirling mailstorm of similarly-named files.
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