Get Stuffit Expander!
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Get Stuffit Expander!
Recently I ran into a problem with a download from the Apple website ... no matter what I tried, it downloaded in a format I'd never heard of and couldn't expand! I asked around, and eventually someone said "Did you try Stuffit Expander?" I said "Well, I tried Stuffit Deluxe and nothing happened ..." and was told "Try Expander. Expander's smart."
My friend was absolutely right. The file expanded into the download I was looking for: no fuss, no muss, no bother.
You probably have Stuffit Expander(tm) floating around somewhere on your hard drive. It comes packaged with most browsers. A quick check told me I had FOUR copies of it (woops, time for some housekeeping)!
I now keep an alias to Expander on my desktop; the current version (6.0.1) can handle over two dozen compression formats, including .zip, .tar, .sit, .sea, .hqx, .mime, .as, .pf, .pkg, .img, .smi and more.
So before you chuck a mystery download and grumble about your ISP or those clowns that put up a bad file for FTP ... drop it on Stuffit Expander(tm) and see what happens!
(If you don't happen to have it, you can download it FREE from the Alladin site: Click HERE.)
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