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Download StuffIt Expander 16 for macOS 10.8 or later and enjoy it on your Mac. .Thank you for your interest in StuffIt Expander™, should you have any questions or comments feel free to contact us through the support button on the right. StuffIt Expander™ - Always Free! StuffIt Expander 5.5 was the most commonly used archive extractor in the later 90's on Mac OS 8 until the standard edition 7.0 came bundled with Mac OS 9. Until version 7, StuffIt Expander 5.5 was a must have tool especially for people surfing the web as everything was compressed and archived in.sit or.hqx as a way to preserve resource forks. Stuffit Expander 4 was the most popular archives decompression utility for Mac back in the early 90's. It supports many compression formats such as.sit,.bin,.hqx and.zip. Stuffit Expander 4 was superseded by Stuffit Expander 5 in the mid 90's. Since Stuffit Expander 5.5 requires Mac OS 7.5 or later, Stuffit Expander 4 remains the best. StuffIt Expander handles the four most common compression and encoding formats, which are StuffIt and Compact Pro archives, BinHex, and MacBinary. Also accessible via StuffIt Expander are ShrinkWrap disk image files and Private File security-encrypted files. Stuffit Expander 5.5 Stuffit Expander, from Aladdin Systems, is a freely redistributable tool for extracting Stuffit 'SIT' archives on Apple Macintosh computers. Most Macintosh file archives are in this format. Unlike ZIP, Stuffit preserves special resource fork and creator type.
StuffIt Expander (and DropStuff) 5.5
Publisher: Aladdin Systems
Category: Compression & Archiving , Utilities
On: 2014-04-14 23:05:43
On: 2019-05-07 14:09:05
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StuffIt Expander 5.5 was the most commonly used archive extractor in the later 90's on Mac OS 8 until the standard edition 7.0 came bundled with Mac OS 9. Until version 7, StuffIt Expander 5.5 was a must have tool especially for people surfing the web as everything was compressed and archived in .sit or .hqx as a way to preserve resource forks on web servers. Without archiving, any Mac software would have been rendered useless the instant it would be stored on a PC server. That's why StuffIt Expander 5.5 has always been freely distributed on various software compilations and has always been free to use. Print shop 2 for mac download. StuffIt Expander could extract a wide variety of archive types such as to name a few: .sit, .zip, .tar, .bin, .cpt DropStuff 5.5 is the opposite of Stuffit Expander, it lets you compress/archive Mac files to a binary safe format such as .sit. Using DropStuff, you could archive any files you want and copy them to a PC file system without any fear of file corruption. Other compression products: BinHex MacZip PackIt Download StuffIt Expander (and DropStuff) 5.5 for Mac Stuffit_Expander_5.5.dsk(1.41 MiB / 1.47 MB) Stuffit Expander v5.5 on a 1.4MB floppy disk image / DSK image 10852 / 2016-09-04 / f7bdd51991b40dd3edd68a8cc656119b864bdfb7 / / dropstuff-55-installer.sit(1.87 MiB / 1.96 MB) Stuffit DropStuff v5.5 / compressed w/ Stuffit 1087 / 2019-05-07 / d9c14b6d1f8abc8bf4bba0aaeb13c3bc52ed8b50 / / Stuffit_DropStuff_5.5_1of2.dsk(1.41 MiB / 1.47 MB) Stuffit DropStuff v5.5 on a 1.4MB floppy disk image (part 1 of 2) / DSK image 1244 / 2016-09-04 / 80f5405353341f5d8f656e93342a635120a92060 / / Stuffit_DropStuff_5.5_2of2.dsk(1.41 MiB / 1.47 MB) Stuffit DropStuff v5.5 on a 1.4MB floppy disk image (part 2 of 2) / DSK image 892 / 2016-09-04 / 1fcbd63b8c5433eb726f9a5b383f6e547e941fc2 / / Aurora 3d for mac free download. Motorola 68K System Requirements From Mac OS 7.5 up to Mac OS 9.2 Architecture: 68K or PPC Mac OS 7.5 - Mac OS 9.2.2 Note: For Mac OS 7.1, 7.0 or 6.x, please download: Stuffit Expander 4.0.2 Warning: This version crashes on Macintosh SE or earlier Emulating this? It should run fine under: SheepShaver |
Stuffit Expander, from Aladdin Systems, is a freely redistributable tool for extracting Stuffit 'SIT' archives on Apple Macintosh computers. Most Macintosh file archives are in this format. Unlike ZIP, Stuffit preserves special resource fork and creator type information required by Macintosh file systems. For the Microsoft Windows version, please see Aladdin Expander.
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Version 5.5 requires MacOS 7.1.1 or later with a minimum hardware requirement of a Mac II (68020 CPU). Supports PPC Macs.
Castles and kingdoms download free mac. Version 5.5 is the last that will run on m68k based Macs, and is the most popular version for vintage Macintosh abandonware.
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Installation instructions
The 'bin' file is primarily for use with virtual Mac hard drive image management tools. Inserting this file in to a Mac volume will automatically create the required resource fork and creator information. On a real mac, bin files can be extracted with BinHex.
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The 1.44mb disk image may be written with a USB floppy drive (the target Mac must also have a 1.44mb drive), and the ISO may be written to a CD-ROM or mounted in an emulator.