[PD] PD usability

[Adam Lindsay]

Frank Barknecht said this at Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:53:59 +0100:

>I meant "tar.gz including Pd patches", but actually I could open them with
>Pd and ggee's "shell" object ;)

shell in ggee. thanks, I'll look for it...

>But I'm sorry if I sounded a bit harsh. It's just, that I would love to try
>some Max-patches in Pd but most Apple-Users pack in stuffit format, 

We all have our biases here....
Yes, proprietary formats suck. But .sit dates back well before many folks
were exchanging many files over this thing called the inter-net. 

Apple has sure learned its lesson, and the support for open formats
nowadays is about as good as I could ask for. If something is missing
(bz2?), then there are other folks who have made installers and front-
ends, or you can ./configure;make;make install...

> which
>I didn't manage to open on Linux (I did install the Basilisk Mac
>emulator, but somehow even that wouldn't work...) 

So the freeware expander available at:
<http://www.stuffit.com/stuffit/linux/index.html>
didn't work? (Ignore the rest of the software they seem to want you
"evaluate"... the rest of us do.)

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