matthew@sunpix.UUCP ( Sun Visualization Products) (10/24/89)
I nabbed this off of the Apple Echo on Fidonet. Any comments or further information from the Usenet community. |Msg#:35780 *Apple Echo* |10/23/89 06:20:00 |From: HANK WESSEL | To: ALL |Subj: SHRINKIT FOR THE GS | |Andy says that ShrinkIt for the GS will be FREEWARE. | |Andy posted a long message on GEnie early this morning which |details a dispute between Andy and Kent Dickey (author of the |Type-I LZW algorithm) and announces that Andy now intends to |make ShrinkIt for the GS freeware. | |I don't presume to understand just what is going on here, but I |am willing to bet that we have not heard the end of this story. | |I'll also bet there will be no winners here...not Andy, not Kent, |not L&L productions, and not the Apple // community. | |-Hank | |--- TMail v1.12c & NoOrigin 3.6a | # Origin: Pittsburgh Apple Corps (412) 344-8226 {HST} [6 lines] (8:7001/1) | * Origin: Zone 8 Echogate The No-Politics No-Games Network (1:129/34) -- Matthew Lee Stier | Sun Microsystems --- RTP, NC 27709-3447 | "Wisconsin Escapee" uucp: sun!mstier or mcnc!rti!sunpix!matthew | phone: (919) 469-8300 fax: (919) 460-8355 |
nicholaA@batman.moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas) (10/25/89)
In article <945@greens.UUCP>, matthew@sunpix.UUCP (Sun Visualization Products) writes: > I nabbed this off of the Apple Echo on Fidonet. Any comments or further > information from the Usenet community. > |Andy says that ShrinkIt for the GS will be FREEWARE. [.. stuff deleted ..] I also posted that message to comp.sys.apple -- if it hasn't shown up at your sit yet, it should. If it hasn't, then send me email and I'll mail you a copy of it. Whenever my compuserve account gets re-activated (long story), I'll post it on compuserve also. You might also think that there are "no winners" in this situation, but I don't consider myself to have "lost" -- if I'd really have "lost" then I'd probably more than consider not finishing the program and just moving on to something else I like a lot better... but I like working on ShrinkIt, and I like Apple II's, and this isn't going to change that. So I made it freeware? So my next product will almost certainly be commercial? So I'm in hock up to my ears for products I've promised and can't deliver... So I'm an idealist... Sigh, it's going to be one of those days... weeks.. maybe years... :-) andy -- Andy Nicholas InterNET: shrinkit@moravian.edu Box 435 uucp: rutgers!liberty!batman!shrinkit Moravian College GEnie: shrinkit Bethlehem, PA 18018 America Online: shrinkit CIS: 70007,3141
nicholaA@batman.moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas) (10/25/89)
> I also posted that message to comp.sys.apple -- if it hasn't shown up at > your sit yet, it should. Er, I meant "site" :-) I had a list of 15 different major things I have to do to GS/ShrinkIt to make it "releasable" on my backboard in my lab here at college... I'm down to 9 items so far... Someone asked when this thing was going to be released -- I think my usual response will be something like "2 or so weeks after I send copies of it to the beta-testers" -- I haven't even done that yet, so don't worry about it. :-) andy -- Andy Nicholas InterNET: shrinkit@moravian.edu Box 435 uucp: rutgers!liberty!batman!shrinkit Moravian College GEnie: shrinkit Bethlehem, PA 18018 America Online: shrinkit CIS: 70007,3141
UD161733@VM1.NODAK.EDU (Joe Carlin) (10/26/89)
It's a shame there are users out there who still think they can buy a porsche at honda prices. I think ShrinkIt for the //e is well worth the money. I realize the compression routines are only a small portion of the program, but if nothing else, it's the actual operation of the program that made it catch on: it's easy to select and choose files (lightyears beyond BLU), it's speed is blinding enough to easy compress the largest 3.5" disks, and it's menu system is second to none. As soon as GS/ShrinkIt it is in my hands, my check will be in the mail. BTW - Attach comments to archives? AWESOME! Joe
nicholaA@batman.moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas) (10/26/89)
In article <8910252152.aa28948@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>, UD161733@VM1.NODAK.EDU (Joe Carlin) writes: > BTW - Attach comments to archives? AWESOME! ShrinkIt 3.0 will be able to (read:doesn't yet) attach a single comment to the first member record of an archive of 200 bytes. This can be later edited by GS/ShrinkIt. You can never resize the comment area, but in GS/ShrinkIt you can define the size of the comment area (200,400,800,1000 bytes) and to which files comment areas will be attached when the archive is originally built. The same goes for added files or disks... you can attach a comment to only the first file/disk added or all of the files added. So, with shrinkit 3.0 and gs/shrinkit, the first member record of an archive will ALWAYS have a comment attached to it that you can assume will be ther... unless... someone has sorted the archive. andy -- Andy Nicholas InterNET: shrinkit@moravian.edu Box 435, Moravian College uucp: rutgers!liberty!batman!shrinkit Bethlehem, PA 18018 GEnie: shrinkit -- I'm finally a Senior! America Online: shrinkit CIS: 70007,3141