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on mouseDown
  set icon of me to "EyeClose"
end mouseDown

on mouseUp
  set icon of me to "EyeOpen"
  dispPict "Com1"
end mouseUp




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----- HyperTalk script -----
on mouseDown
  set icon of me to "EyeClose"
end mouseDown

on mouseUp
  set icon of me to "EyeOpen"
  dispPict "Com2"
end mouseUp




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Compactor vs. Stuffit

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A new way of doing business. In the beginning, the Mac Community was without file compression utilities. Then came PackIt. PackIt worked well. A few imitators came along, but they failed to work as well as PackIt. Next came StuffIt. A whole new door was opened to file compression. Not only were the compressed files smaller, but a self-
decompression shell could be added, 
eliminating the need for all users to have 
StuffIt. And just as StuffIt goes commercial, Compactor appears on the scene, with a new way of doing business.File compression is a method of taking a file, be it an application, desk accessory, graphic document, text document, etc., and reduce the size in bytes by looking at the code and figuring out how to make it smaller. For example, if the code has “A” repeated twenty times, the compressed file would


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...............................Randy Bisig

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list “20(A)”, reducing the code from twenty characters down to five. The 
utility would see that there is supposed to 
be twenty A’s, so when decompressing, 
twenty A’s are placed in the code. There 
is a bit more involved, but this example 
helps to explain the process.

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The difference between StuffIt and 
Compactor can be seen both on the 
screen and on the disk. StuffIt is a bit 
more Mac-ish with it’s dialog boxes 
whereas Compactor is much more 
practical. StuffIt has icons across the file 
listing dialog for the commands to Add, 
Extract, Rename and other commands. 
Compactor has no
 icons, just
 commands in the
 menus.