Many of the files on the Engineering Service Center FTP (file
server) site are "compressed." To facilitate decompressing these
files, we have made many decompression programs available. Every
effort is made to ensure that all compression programs have a
decompression program available here for Macintosh, Windows, DOS and
UNIX based workstations. Please read the file descriptions below and
FTP (download) the appropriate file(s).
NOTE: Most of these programs are freeware (no fees involved).
Some programs are shareware--they have fees and registration
information within the program.
StuffIt Expander 4.5 for Macintosh from the Aladdin website
StuffIt Expander is Aladdin's award-winning freeware product. Use it, as is, to expand StuffIt, Compact Pro, BinHex & MacBinary files. Version 4.5 also now adds the ability to mount ShrinkWrap image files (electronic versions of disks) and to decrypt Private File encrypted files. Add the Expander Enhancer from "DropStuff with Expander Enhancer" and StuffIt Expander is PowerPC accelerated, expands more formats (including .zip and .tar), and joins StuffIt segments. Expander also handles segmented and multipart encoded files (ie: BinHex and UUencoded files).
StuffIt Expander has an intelligent background processing scheme that allows expanding groups of files so that you can continue to do other things with your computer.
Engineering Service Center's Microsoft Word files can be used by Macintosh and Windows Computers without requiring any translation between operating systems. When unstuffing our Microsoft Word files using StuffIt Expander 4.5 for Macintosh, it is NOT neccessary to convert files to Macintosh format. Prior to downloading our .sit files, select "Never" for your Cross Platform preferences.
STUFFIT
EXPANDER FOR WINDOWS from the Aladdin website
StuffIt Expander for Windows expands files from the most popular archiving and compression formats found online, including StuffIt (.sit) and ZIP (.zip). StuffIt Expander will also expand files in uuencoded (.uue), BinHex (.hqx), and MacBinary (.bin) formats, such as those commonly found on the Internet. Other archive formats supported include ARC (.arc), Arj (.arj), and gzip (.gz). StuffIt Expander will also expand self-extracting archives created by StuffIt, ZIP, and Arj.
Engineering Service Center's Microsoft Word files can be used by Macintosh and Windows Computers without requiring any translation between operating systems. When unstuffing our Microsoft Word files using StuffIt Expander for Windows, it is NOT neccessary to convert files to Windows format. Prior to downloading our .sit files, select "Never" for your Cross Platform options.
UNSITINS.EXE
UNSITINS.EXE is a DOS-based freeware program that expands Macintosh
StuffIt archives on IBM-PCs and compatibles. Stuffit archives
include: .sit, .bin and .hqx files.
DROPSTUFF WITH EXPANDER ENHANCER
DropStuff with Expander Enhancer is a shareware program which
offers Macintosh users the ability to expand every leading Macintosh,
PC, and Internet compression format including StuffIt (.sit), Compact
Pro (.cpt), AppleLink (.pkg), ZIP (.zip), ARC (.arc), gzip (.gz),
Unix Compress (.Z), UUencode (.uu), BinHex (.hqx), and MacBinary
(.bin). When used together with StuffIt Expander, users are also able
to easily create StuffIt archives by simply dragging and dropping a
file or folder icon onto the DropStuff icon.
UNZIP
UnZip 2.0 is a freeware application for Macintosh to extract files
froma a .zip or .arc archive file. UnZip will extract files created
with any version of PKZip up to and including version 1.9.3a.
PKUNZIP
Pkunzip (pkunzip.exe) is a shareware DOS utility program to
extract files from a ".zip" file.
WINZIP
Winzip (winzip56.exe) is a shareware Windows utility program
to extract files from a ".zip" file. This is a self extracting
archive - just run it from the DOS prompt.
GNUZIP
GnuZip is a freeware "unzipping" program for UNIX based computers. To
"unzip" a file, simply issue the command: $ gunzip [filename]
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Stuffit Support - How to contact Aladdin Systems,
Inc.
If you need to contact someone at Aladdin, use any of the following
methods:
Aladdin Systems, Inc.; 165 Westridge Drive; Watsonville, CA 95076
Phone: 408/761-6200; Fax: 408/761-6206
Internet:
tech.assist@aladdinsys.com