Fully agree with the rant, and my point is that implementing Zip- compression will lessen the bothering... I use the Stuffit option quite frequently for sending info between office and home, files are more robust that way.
Mirko -- Mirko Kranenburg Maastricht, Netherlands e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OS X 10.2.6, Quicksilver 733, 1 Gb RAM Freeway Pro, NavPack, GraphPack, PowerMail 4.1.3, 3 panes The whole MarinerPak On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 08:17:58 -0400 Michael Lewis wrote: >Wayne Brissette sez: > >>Just as an FYI, there are two versions of the PC ZIP format currently >>fighting it out. There was a really good article about the issues and >>problems created by this in a recent CNET article. If I can find the >>article, I'll post the link. > >This may be the one you're speaking of, Wayne: > > Is Zip Coming Undone? > <http://news.com.com/2100-1046_3-5062423.html> > >I never use any email program's StuffIt compression, anyway. I've always >stuffed or zipped my files myself before attaching them so I could better >control their form and names, as well as choose the appropriate >compression for whoever I was sending the file to. I did this even when I >was a Claris Emailer user. As long as mac users want StuffIt files and PC >users want Zip files, I'll be doing the same thing, no matter what >changes are made to an email program. Some day it would be nice if my PC >clients just listened to me and loaded StuffIt Expander on their systems >(it's free) so they could handle everything, but everyone acts like it's >such a bother. So, I continue having to be the one bothering. :) > ></rant off> :) > >-- >Michael Lewis >Off Balance Productions >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >www.offbalance.com > > > >
