On Jan 25, 2007, at 3:43 PM, Garry wrote:
Stuffit does NOT come with Windows, heck, it doesn't even come
with new Macs.
I thought Expander came with Macs. Like I said silly me.
It used to come with Macs and the Mac OS. But since 10.4 was
released, Apple dropped it as part of the OS bundle and stopped
providing it on new Macs.
OS X is going the route of using Zip for compression like the rest of
the world already does. 10.4 integrated direct Zip abilities. If you
right click on something, there is a "Make Archive" option that will
zip the file(s) selected into an compressed archive. It uses a
special version of Zip (BOMZip) that is Mac friendly and retains
resource forks as needed. You can also double click a zip archive
file and OS X will automatically unzip it for you (not quite as nice
as XP that will let you treat a zip archive like a folder so you can
add or remove files with ease, but still better than needing Stuffit
or some other 3rd party program to handle the Zip files)
I think Stuffit may be on the way out entirely. They were never
successful in penetrating the Windows market, and now that OS X and
Macs don't ship with it, and have a built in alternative, there
becomes less of a reason for new users to buy it on the Mac.
-chris
<www.mythtech.net>
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