SH> Unstuffit is totally free, not licensed. It has been that
SH> way from the beginning 15 years ago. The newer versions 

Unfortunately, the company seems to have taken a bad course now (see
various comments on the 8.01 version and its bundling). You have to
download Stuffit Standard (which is shareware and 13MB in size) to get
the freeware utility Stuffit Expander which is packaged inside. I am
not gonna fall for that trap if I can help it.

SH> Definitely worth looking for, it is a very handy tool.

A handy tool is a commandline decompresser which is 200kB in size, which is
freeware, or a maximum 1MB decompresser with graphical interface, also
released as freeware. I looked on their website and all I found was a
13MB archive with version 8 including all the other unnecessary files.
When I see software which should be built simple built this way, it stinks.
That's bloatware by definition. It's unfortunate their previous market
acceptance made them de facto standard.

SH> I could send you a copy, but I suspect you don't want the
SH> Mac OS-X version...

No thanks <g>

but thank you for the reply :-)

Best regards,
   Frantisek Vlcek

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