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DropStuff with Expander Enhancer 4.0 ReleasedNow Faster and Includes More Support for Expanding Compressed FilesWatsonville, CA (May 7, 1996); Aladdin Systems, Inc. announces a new update to the popular shareware "DropStuff with Expander Enhancer(tm)." It offers Macintosh users the ability to create StuffIt archives by dragging and dropping files and/or folders onto DropStuff. DropStuff with Expander Enhancer allows users of Aladdin's StuffIt Expander(tm) to expand virtually every compression format found on the Internet or online that were created on the Macintosh, Unix Systems, and IBM-PCs and compatibles. These formats include StuffIt (.sit), Compact Pro (.cpt), AppleLink (.pkg), ZIP (.zip), QWK (.qwk), ARC (.arc), gzip (.gz), Unix Compress (.Z), tar (.tar), UUcode (.uu), BinHex (.hqx), MacBinary (.bin) and StuffIt SpaceSaver files. Expander Enhancer also enables StuffIt Expander to join files that were segmented with another StuffIt product, such as StuffIt Deluxe. The System 7-only DropStuff utility will compress any file or folder into an archive by a factor of as much as 98% (average 40%-60%) of its original size, compression varies depending on the file-type. These archives assist in saving disk space, speeding up modem or network file transfers, and making backups easier. StuffIt is the worldwide standard for Macintosh file compression and archiving. New DropStuff with Expander Enhancer Features StuffIt archive compression and expansion is accelerated on a Power Macintosh for most formats. Now supports expansion of TapeARchive (.tar) files. New Support for expansion of files created by StuffIt SpaceSaver; ZIP self-extracting archives; QWK files; gzip, and joining StuffIt segmented files.
DropStuff with Expander Enhancer is copyrighted shareware and has a 15-day trial period. Users are honor-bound to send Aladdin a $30 registration fee after the trial. Owners of Aladdin's commercial products (StuffIt Deluxe, StuffIt SpaceSaver, and SITcomm) will automatically be registered upon installation of DropStuff with Expander Enhancer; those customers will not need to send in a registration fee. All Aladdin freeware and shareware is available from the various Aladdin online forums and at the following sites: ftp://ftp.aladdinsys.com or http://www.aladdinsys.com About Aladdin Founded in 1988, Aladdin Systems, Inc. is credited with creating the worldwide compression standard for the Macintosh platform. Aladdin is one of the few remaining pioneers committed to the shareware and freeware philosophy of software distribution and marketing. Over 4,000 software developers, including Microsoft, Claris, and Apple, have licensed Aladdin's data compression and installation technology. ###StuffIt, StuffIt Deluxe, StuffIt SpaceSaver, StuffIt Expander, SITcomm, and DropStuff with Expander Enhancer are trademarks of Aladdin Systems, Inc. All other products and brands are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
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