Re: packing disk copy 4.2 disk images for the web?

Would it be possible for you to put them in multiple formats? Some of use don't have newer Macs to unpack the files with.

-Jason

On 4/22/07, toby <toby_at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
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> On Apr 22, 5:57 pm, simon <sim..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
> > Hello all,
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> > i'm in the process of converting all available disk images to disk copy
> > 4.2 format. But i want to put them on my site. what would be the
> > preferred way to pack them? binhex? macbinary, zip? stuffit?
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> Binhex is pointless these days; ZIP is a PC-ism; StuffIt & its
> inherent MacBinary should be ideal (just find the right version of
> StuffIt for maximum compatibility). The important criterion here is
> ensuring decompressor availability, imho, on the systems people will
> want to unpack on (System 6? 7? 8? 9? OS X?)
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> > and should i put a distro in one file, or every image seperate?
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> Related images in one archive seems a good idea to me.
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> --T
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> > both systems have their dis- and advantages.
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> > please post your opinions to get to a form of concensus. (hopefully...)
> > --
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> > met vriendelijke groet
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> > Simon Claessen
> > sim..._at_email.domain.hidden
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