And the included DropConverter utility lets you batch-convert old StuffIt archives to the new format. You can view the contents of an SEA without expanding the file, by choosing Remove Self-Extracting from the Magic Menu that appears in the Finder’s menu bar. Its many compression options are available via contextual menus, and the program now supports the MacBinary III format. ALADDIN ANNOUNCES STUFFIT DELUXE 5.0-NEW FORMAT INCREASES COMPRESSION BY 20 AND CREATES UNIQUE CROSS-PLATFORM SOLUTION StuffIt Deluxe 5.0 Has Better Compression, Supports OS 8.
StuffIt Deluxe 5.0 is also slower than version 4.5: on a 250MHz PowerBook G3, even with the Fast Compression option enabled, version 5.0 took 4 minutes and 10 seconds to stuff a 103MB folder DropStuff 4.5 took only 3 minutes and 50 seconds.Īlthough Aladdin stumbled with this version of StuffIt Deluxe, the program’s not all bad. But when I stuffed a folder containing ResEdit 2.1.3 and all its components, the StuffIt 5.0 archive was 4K larger than its DropStuff 4.5 counterpart. Compressing a folder with 25 PICT files, StuffIt Deluxe 5.0 did create a smaller archive≡00K versus Aladdin DropStuff 4.5’s 116K.
ALLADIN SYSTEMS STUFFIT EXPANDER UPDATE
What the update won’t address is StuffIt Deluxe 5.0’s new file format: archives you create with this version can’t be opened with an older version of StuffIt Deluxe or StuffIt Expander.Īladdin claims that StuffIt Deluxe 5.0 increases compression by about 20 percent over previous versions, but that number depends on the files being compressed.
Aladdin claims that these kinks will be worked out by the time you read this.
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