StuffIt Deluxe

Stuffit Deluxe is the flagship commercial version of the StuffIt line, which can compress files, unlike StuffIt Expander. It claims to be able to compress the files to a massive 98% smaller than the original. This version includes all of the compression formats (mp3, pdf etc). As Apple included its own Archive Utility with Mac OS X, its usage declined and was finally discontinued in 2019.
==History==
StuffIt was originally written for 68k Macs in 1988 by Leonard Rosenthol, and ran on System 6.0.4 and later. It was later updated by Raymond Lau with PowerPC support, and then sold to Aladdin Systems. The original version only expanded the original StuffIt 1.0 style Macintosh archive; Lau later updated it to support Compact Pro (.cpt) archives as well. When Aladdin purchased it, they added support for Disk Doubler archives and other formats. It was eventually purchased by SmithMicro, at which point it was a generic unarchiving solution and could handle pretty much every archive and encoding format available for Macintosh, Windows and Linux operating systems. Versions were made available for both Mac OS X and Windows.
==External Links==
* at Wikipedia
Category:Compression utilities