isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) (07/13/89)
A new archiving program was just posted to info-mac archives
the other day and I downloaded and played with it a bit
this evening... Now I have a couple questions.
It was stated that this is a full-featured demo, just
with a 1-month expiration date. What I'd like to know
is if the demo has the same user-interface as the
commercial release because:
1> It's got the worst user interface I've ever seen.
(We're talking UGLY -- time for the brown-paper bag!)
2> The About dialog is COMPLETELY illegible. Lines of
text overlapping all over the place. (I assume
someone forgot to call SetDAFont().)
3> Is there going to be a PD unpacker? Face it, it'll
never become a standard if everyone has to pay to
unpack.
I'm sure I could think of some more questions, but that'll
do it for now...
Ken
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DISCLAIMER? I don't get paid enough to worry about disclaimers.cyosta@taux01.UUCP ( Yossie Silverman ) (07/16/89)
I recently downloaded Diamond 3.2 and gave it a try. Well, it compressed the entire 4 disks of Dreams from 2.8M down to 1.1M. Not bad, especially when StuffIt produced a 1.5M archive. Diamond is slow, compressing, but fast uncompressing. The user interface is simple and clear. So, the DEMO version runs out after a month, well, don't believe it. I may be wrong but I find that it should die in about a week. And this includes self-unpacking archives that you made with it. Further, a self-unpacking archive will refuse to pack for you (which is ok) it claims that the packing code is missing. Well, it isn't. Actually it is just disabled. How do I know this? Well, the difference in size between a non-self-unpacking and a self-unpacking archive is exactely the size of the Diamond program itself. :-) In summary: Diamond seems to be a very nice product, functionally superb (compared to anything else on the market today), simple to use. I am curious to know what the cost of the real product is!? Hint: if you are stymied by the Help screen, try clicking on the two icon's at the bootom of the dialog, the ones with "up" and "down" arrows. - Yossie -- Yossie Silverman What did the Caspian sea? National Semiconductor Ltd. (Israel) cyosta%taux01@nsc.nsc.COM or RPR1YOS@TECHNION.BITNET NSA LSD FBI KGB PCP CIA MOSAD NUCLEAR MI5 SPY ASSASSINATE SDI -- OOCLAY ITAY
roland@dna.lth.se (Roland Mansson) (07/16/89)
In article <2176@taux01.UUCP> cyosta%taux01@nsc.COM ( Yossie Silverman ) writes: >I recently downloaded Diamond 3.2 and gave it a try. [stuff deleted] >I am curious to know what the cost of the real product is!? SUGGESTED RETAIL PRICE Full packaged version: 125 $ Site licenses available. Unpacking only licenses: Not a freeware, but a very low price: up to 1000 units: 1.40 $ 1000 - 5000 units: 0.70 $ more: 0.35 $ Note that unpacking-only versions are available in 2 different ways: % stand-alone unpacking-only version % since version 3.0, there is a built-in option: "Include unpacking code" (in packed file) -- Roland Mansson, Lund University Computing Center, Box 783, S220 07 Lund, Sweden Phone: +46-46107436 Fax: +46-46138225 Bitnet: roland_m@seldc52 Internet: roland_m@ldc.lu.se or roland_m%ldc.lu.se@uunet.uu.net UUCP: {uunet,mcvax}!sunic!ldc.lu.se!roland_m AppleLink: SW0022