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Aladdin Systems Announces the Availability Of The StuffIt Engine SDK 4.0 To The Developer Community

Engine Supports The Industry Standard "StuffIt" File Format

San Francisco, CA, Macworld Expo (January 7, 1997)-- Aladdin Systems, Inc., developer and publisher of the worldwide Macintosh compression standard, StuffIt, announces the StuffIt Engine SDK 4.0 for the Macintosh. StuffIt Engine 4.0 is expected to ship March 1, 1997.

The StuffIt Engine 4.0 gives third party software built-in support for StuffIt Archives (.sit), the Macintosh standard for archiving and compression. The StuffIt Engine consists of a series of code resources that give access to standard StuffIt archival compression and decompression.

By licensing the StuffIt Engine a developer's product can create StuffIt Archives, Self-Extracting Archives, encrypted archives and other Archive formats. A developer can integrate the StuffIt Engine into their program in less than one hour. The single API for all of the StuffIt Engine file formats include the following:

  • StuffIt Compression
  • Compact Pro Decompression
  • ZIP Decompression
  • ARC Decompression
  • StuffIt Decompression
  • AppleLink Package Decompression
  • GZIP Decompression
  • Unix Compress Decompression
  • BinHex Decoding
  • MacBinary Decoding
  • UUCode Decoding

Other Information
The StuffIt Engine 4.0 is distributed electronically over the World Wide Web at http://www.aladdinsys.com; AOL; and CompuServe. The StuffIt Engine is sold through license agreements directly from Aladdin. Aladdin has increased its developer engineering, sales, and technical support staff to provide better service for developers. Contact the Developer Sales Group at dev.sales@aladdinsys.com for additional details.

Founded in 1988 Aladdin Systems, Inc. is the developer and publisher of award winning products for businesses and consumers. Aladdin's Developer Technologies Group includes InstallerMaker, the Macintosh installation standard used by thousands of software developers, including Apple, Claris, Corel and Microsoft. Aladdin's Consumer Product Group includes StuffIt, the Macintosh and internet compression standard and Spring Cleaning, the fastest and safest way to clean up your Mac. Aladdin products are designed to help users take full advantage of their computer both in work and in play.

Aladdin is located at 165 Westridge Drive, Watsonville, CA 95076, USA; telephone: (408)761-6200, web: http://www.aladdinsys.com, e-mail: dev.sales@aladdinsys.com.

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