On 25-Jan-07, at 3:03 PM, cb 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.
I have Stuffit Expander 7.03 with a date of 3/03 on my machine with
X.4.5.
I was checking on the prefs for my version of Stuffit and next to
the .sea check box(make file a self extracting archive) it says it is
platform independent.
I quote "This creates a self extracting archive that anyone can
unstuff without a Stuffit product."
Us regular folks we control click to access zip archive feature under
X & unfortunately no password protection.
and like Tom Petty sings "I'm a night watchman. I love securrrrrity"
twang twang.
Garry
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can
see."
- Mark Twain
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