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I'm pretty fed up with stuffit, it's slow and cruddy.

PackUpAndGo is much quicker, and handles stuffit files too (although it isn't registered as a helper app for these).

Is there any chance we could see:

• Support for resource forks (it doesn't seem to matter, but it does complain about them)

• Ability to keep on decompressing - e.g .dmg.gz -> mounts disk image afterwards.

• Windowless operation.

• Pref to quit when done.

Anyone else have any ideas? (or like to correct me on any of those points?)

Well, I don't think Scott Anguish is planning on doing anything more with OpenUp, so I don't think that stealing/borrowing a few ideas would be a bad thing.

Attached is the difference between OpenUp's services menu and PackUpAndGo's services menu.

As for StuffIt, I seem to remember them getting bent out of shape (once they had a Mac OS X version of StuffIt) about OpenUp having the ability to work with StuffIt files (even though they had been silent before they had a native version).

In the resources issue, there are a few versions of tar that now support HFS resources. The problem is that they are not widely installed which makes using them problematic... even in an app like PackUpAndGo.

Borrowing ideas could work well

Mainly I'm looking for a way to turn PackUpAndGo into a seamless internet helper app:

Download file -> PUAG launches -> Decompresses file -> PUAG Quits

All very quickly I must stress.

Couldn't the core handle resource forks the same way Zip support in the Finder works? - i.e. if you're not using OS X you get a folder with the resource fork in it.