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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list “20(A)”, reducing the code from twenty characters down to five. The