Aladdin Announces StuffIt Deluxe 4.5 - OS 8 Compatible, New Email Support, and Added Expansion Formats; Aladdin Announces Special Offer To StuffIt Users- Free and Discounted Upgrade.

WATSONVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 1997--Aladdin Systems today announced that StuffIt(R) Deluxe 4.5 is expected to ship October 31st.

New upgrade includes Mac OS 8 compatibility, support for more expansion formats like MIME/Base64, encrypted ZIP, and LHA expansion, additional email program support and Private File encrypted file support.

New Features in StuffIt Deluxe 4.5, include:

-- OS 8 compatibility

-- Added format support for Base64/MIME decoding

-- OS 8 Contextual Menu Manager support

-- Browser greyscale appearance

-- Added Mailer support for AOL 3.0, Claris EMailer, and Lotus

cc:Mail

-- LHA expansion

-- StuffIt Expander has added support for ShrinkWrap disk image

files and Private File-encrypted files

-- Encrypted ZIP expansion

"The new features in StuffIt Deluxe 4.5 make Internet downloads a breeze. StuffIt covers all the common formats on the Internet, so it doesn't matter which platform you receive files from. Aladdin makes it easy to communicate," said Rakesh Chabra, StuffIt product manager.

True Finder Integration

The True Finder Integration(TM) (TFI) control panel acts as a central location where users can tailor StuffIt's integration into the Mac OS8 Finder. The TFI control panel adds compression, expansion, and file translation with an extensible architecture including three TFI "extensions:" StuffIt Browser(TM), Magic Menu(TM), and Archive Via Rename(TM).

StuffIt Browser

StuffIt archives can be viewed and manipulated in the Finder through the StuffIt Browser. StuffIt Browser makes it easy to create, examine and modify archives - without leaving the Finder. StuffIt Browser is a convenient time-saver because users don't have to run the StuffIt Deluxe application to work with their archives.

StuffIt Browser also makes it easier for users to archive files on their hard drive using specific criteria. Using Apple's Find File utility, users can search their hard drive for files to archive based on file name, date modified, and then drag and drop files from Find File into a Browser window or onto a closed StuffIt archive.

Magic Menu

Magic Menu, a Finder menu of compression and utility functions supports Internet archiving, encoding file formats and expansion of segmented and multi-part UUencoded and BinHex files. Compression formats the Mac OS 8 compatible Magic Menu expands include: StuffIt (.sit), Compact Pro (.cpt), AppleLink (.pkg), ZIP (.zip), ARC (.arc), gzip (.gz), tar (.tar), Unix Compress (.Z), LHA (.lha), UUencode (.uu), BinHex (.hqx), MacBinary (.bin), Base64/MIME, and SpaceSaver-compressed files. Magic Menu also Stuffs files and joins StuffIt-segmented files.

Contextual Menus are now supported in StuffIt Deluxe 4.5. Clicking on a file or folder while holding down the Control key opens the Mac OS 8 contextual menu list with StuffIt's Magic Menu commands, making StuffIt's commands available from any file.

Archive Via Rename

Archive Via Rename extends file compressd features in StuffIt Deluxe 4.5:

Internet Slder is Stuffed into an archive and attached to a newly-created e-mail message.

-- Support of UUencoded, BinHex and Base64/MIME-encoded files.

Faster Stuffibution over the Internet.

Other features

-- Drag and drop applications (or "drop boxes") are included with StuffIt 4.5.

-- DropCompress, a drop box included in 4.5, allows users to quickly SpaceSaver-compress files for saving disk space.

-- DropSegment allows users to segment large files and StuffIt archives using a drag and drop interface. This feature allows users to fit large archives on portable media such as floppy disks and Zip orl upgrade offer to new owners of StuffIt Deluxe 4.0 (purchased after July 26, 1997) to upgrade to 4.5 for free. They will be able to order the 4.5 upgrade for free (pluffIt Deluxe 4.5 for $29.95 (plus tax and shiplso, starting Friday 10/31, registered users wils except the shipping fee (U.S. $19.95). Retail upgrade offers vary by country. This offer expires December 31, 1997. Contact Aladdin's Customer Service for ordering information at [e-mail], [phone], or Aladdin's international partners at [e-mail] or http://www.aladdinsys.com/store/international.html .

StuffIt Deluxe 4.5 is a commercial software product that carries a suggested retail price of $129.95 U.S. StuffIt Deluxe is available throughout the U.S. and all leading mail order and retail computer stores and is distributed by Ingram Micro, Merisel and The Douglas Stewart Company. StuffIt Deluxe is also available directly from Aladdin. Check Aladdin's web site for the international channel partners: http://www.aladdinsys.com/store/international.html . For more information on StuffIt Deluxe go to (http://www.aladdinsys.com/consumer/sd1.html).

StuffIt Deluxe is compatible with any Macintosh computer with 4MB of RAM and System 7.1.1 or higher and Mac OS 8.

Aladdin Systems: Making data transmission, access and organization transparent in the Internet era. Founded in 1988, Aladdin Systems, Inc. is the developer and publisher of award winning business and consumer products. Aladdin publishes StuffIt(R), the worldwide compression standard; Spring Cleaning(TM), the to create and distribute disk images. Aladdin products are designed to help users take full advantage of their computers by making life easier.

Aladdin is located at 165 Westridge Drive, Watsonville, CA 95076, U.S.A; telephone: ( [e-mail]

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