Filed under: Software, Universal Binary
Stuffit 10.1 finally goes Universal, loses installer
Allume Systems has
finally cranked out a (beta) Universal Binary of their 'hate it but gotta have it lying around' free Stuffit Expander.
It seems they were going for bonus points with this release, as they removed some of the 'hate it' factor by finally
doing away with an installer; it is now a DnD .app from a mounted disk image.This version is also localized into Japanese, French and German, and is available from either VersionTracker or Stuffit.com, though as of this writing that page still says the latest release is 10.0.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Eric said 10:08AM on 5-01-2006
this is a public beta and stuffit.com still hasn't announce anything
i have been using stuffit expander UB beta for months.
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Chris said 10:42AM on 5-01-2006
Yeah dudes, the official version on the site is still 10.0, not a UB, and still has an installer.
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starwxrwx said 11:23AM on 5-01-2006
Does the installer do anything other than put Stuffit in its own directory?
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DamienG said 11:26AM on 5-01-2006
Is this program even needed anymore in os x? I find the 'create archive' works a lot better, and is less prone to corruption.
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Kroc Camen said 11:56AM on 5-01-2006
Why we have to rely on this awful software at all is annoying. Why doesn't OSX have a decent archive manager built in? In Windows you can browse ZIP files as folders. If I have a 3GB ZIP file in OSX, double clicking it will only expand it, not view it. Stuffit expander only expands it, not views it.
Is there any decent WinRAR-like archive manager for OSX?
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yap said 12:23PM on 5-01-2006
I have to agree with Kroc Camen. Stuffit expander is nasty. It was pretty strange that OS X came with it. I stopped downloading .sit files, I'll never run that crappy software.
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Frode Nordahl said 2:34PM on 5-01-2006
I kind of like it. It handles most archive types I throw at it. tar.gz, tar.bz2, dmg.gz, self extracting exe files etc.
When I first bought myself a Mac three years back I was surprised that StuffIt was still around, but I thought hey, let's do it the Mac way, and it has served me well.
There is no reason to throw it out just because it has been around for ages when it still works and handles most formats elegantly.
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N. Godbout said 5:54PM on 5-01-2006
Are there any other freeware alternatives to Stuffit? As far as I can find, there it no other way to extract .sit files.
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