This means that sometimes you might want to send a file that is very large. The University of Houston does not allow attachments larger than six megabytes, so Information Technology provides StuffIt Lite to help Macintosh customers send these large attachments by electronic mail. StuffIt Lite compresses and combines multiple computer files into files called archives. StuffIt Lite allows IT customers to compress computer files so they are smaller and easier to handle. It also lets you combine several files into one file so they are easier to attach to electronic mail.
Users can also create smaller segments for archives.
The UH Software Web site has links for downloading StuffIt Lite . Although StuffIt Expander comes with every Macintosh computer, Expander doesn't have the compression abilities of StuffIt Lite. After installing StuffIt Lite, creating these archive files is quite easy. Open StuffIt Lite by clicking on the icon. After StuffIt Lite opens click on the File menu located at the top of the screen and select New.