____/ Peter Köhlmann on Tuesday 06 November 2007 22:34 : \____
> owl wrote:
>
>> Snit <CSMA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> "amicus_curious" <ACDC@xxxxxxx> stated in post
>>> 47307f08$0$23772$ec3e2dad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 11/6/07 7:49 AM:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Where I think you are missing the boat is the degree of expertise that
>>>> is
>>>> required. The Windows painful, step-by-step approach works for someone
>>>> who is not familiar with the terse "extract here" item hidden in the
>>>> properties
>>>> access menu. Presumably, if/when one gains some facility with the
>>>> operation, the user would install the WinRAR program which adds the
>>>> quick selection menus to the list.
>>>
>>> On OS X a user just double clicks. Boom.
>>>
>>
>> That doesn't sound like a happy result.
>
> It isn't. It would be about the dumbest thing to do
>
> Simply unzipping the file is the worst possible move in lots of cases
>
> But then, this is the OSX way. Treat the users as if they are total retards.
> Because quite probably, they are
I disagree. I quite like it how in OS 9 archives were automatically
uncompressed, without user intervention at all. You could still operate on the
compressed file if you wanted to, but it was assumed that a desired step is to
unstrip the compression layer (with StuffIt).
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