StuffIt Expander
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Template:Infobox Software StuffIt Expander is a freeware, closed source data compression software utility developed by Allume Systems (formerly Aladdin Systems) It runs in Mac OS Classic, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux/UNIX. It does not compress files. As of March 2006, the latest Macintosh version is 10.0.2, which requires Mac OS X v10.3, but has several features/fixes for 10.4 users. Mac OS X v10.2 users should use version 8.0.2 (included in StuffIt Standard). The latest version for Mac OS Classic is 7.0.3. Expander decompresses files in the following formats:
- A to B (.btoa)
- AppleLink Package (.pkg)
- AppleSingle (.as)
- Arc (.arc)
- BinHex (.hqx), all versions
- bzip (.bzip, .bz, .bz2, .tbz)
- Compact Pro (.cpt)
- Disk Copy disk images
- DiskDoubler (.dd)
- gzip (.gz, .tgz)
- LHA (.lha, .lzh)
- MacBinary (.bin), all versions
- MIME/Base 64 (.mime)
- Private File (.pf), Aladdin's encryption file format
- RAR (.rar)
- ShrinkWrap disk images (only the Classic Mac OS versions support these files)
- StuffIt (.sit, .sitx, .sea) v1.5.1 to 8.0.x, including encrypted archives
- tar (.tar)
- Unix Compress (.Z, .taz)
- UU (.uu, .uue, .enc), PC/Unix 8 bit to 7 bit encoding similar to BinHex (.hqx)
- ZIP (.zip), including encrypted archives and PKWare's Deflate64.
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