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How to Access Stuffit Files and Other Archives with Stuffit Expander Mac 10.8 Free Download



StuffIt Expander is a proprietary file compression and expansion utility developed by Allume Systems (a subsidiary of Smith Micro Software). The Mac version of StuffIt Expander is free to download from the App Store, requiring Mac OS X 10.8 or higher.




Stuffit Expander Mac 10.8 Free Download




StuffIt was the most versatile and used compression suite on the Mac since 1987. It began as shareware and then it went commercial but StuffIt Expander (the decompression tool) always remained free and was even bundled by Apple on Mac OS release CD-ROM's starting from the mid-90's, coinciding with the popularity of the internet in homes. It became so much of an essential tool when downloading basically *anything* from the internet. Macintosh applications (and most documents) all contain resource forks which are not binary safe nor transfered using standard FTP or HTTP tools such as web browsers. Therefore, StuffIt took care of bundling resource forks along with the binary data constituting the file and allowed for uploading/downloading from or to a web server. It also took care of storing such Mac files on a Windows computer for instance. This .sit format stayed forever the #1 choice for archiving old Macintosh files/applications whereas .zip format became the standard on Windows computers. 2ff7e9595c


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