[Ti] [OT] incredible time to expand an archive

[alexandre]

On 5 Dec 2005, at 15:27, Dr Trevor J. Hutley wrote:

>
> I was just expanding an archive (.sitx) using StuffitExpander 10,  
> and it showed:
>
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> 		Time Remaining: 2 023 406 814 hours.
>
>
> Now 2 billion hours is close to 250 million years.
>
> Where could OSX or Stuffit have derived this estimate from ??
>
> The expansion actually took about 1 minute (22 Mb).
>
> Just thought I would share with you folks for amusement value !
>

yeah, happened to me too with a 20-25mb file! i tried to repeat the  
process to take a screenshot, but it didn't happen again…

alexandre
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