KVICKSILVER  Samantha: You wrote that reply rather late, I wrote that comment a long time ago. How you interpret my comment and its tone is your opinion. I hear what you're saying, and I do understand your point.

I give you this: Off course I didn't want to be a big happy smile when replying to a post like that. Personally, I think the most of what I wrote was kind of on-topic and related to his problem/disappointment with the application.

Sure, my comment did contain some sense of humor (at least I tried)... Call it irony. Did you _not_ think I was suggesting a likely answer to why his files didn't get smaller by using GUI Tar?

I think I did.

Thirrouard obviously got the point (the part about me being aggressive was axeggarated, though ;-) I feel quite calm). I wasn't rude without reasons. This is a free app. Some guy (or girl) has put a lot of effort, skills and time in making this a nice GUI to the Unix tools -- like tar.

--> These tools -- like tar -- is in there, behind the beautiful Mac OS X interface. Go to /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app, once in the Terminal, write: "man tar". All Mac OS X versions have it, deep down.

That's the main concern: The Unix tool tar _works_. GUI Tar is like many other apps, only a GraphicalUserInterface for these tools. That means you can't blame this app for bad compression rates on some random (unknown?) files.

It is free. It uses free tools to do the job the user wants. Don't blame the developer. That's basically what I wanted to say: Millions of applications are available, free of charge, gratis, free, whatever.

Why? Because there are persons who develop great software and makes it available for everybody -- like us -- for free. Personally, I found it very rude to whine about whatever problem you have with an app, which you've obtained for free and which the developer doesn't get a nickel for.

Especially when the developer obviously hasn't done anything wrong. --> Take it or leave it. It's free: If you appreciate it, well, show it! If you don't like it, don't immediately start complaining.

Greetings,

celebritarian — not a developer. ;-)  
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