Drop Stuff w/Expander Enhancer

• Version: 3.5.2
• Author: Leonard Rosenthol
• Requirements: System 7
• Cost: $30 (shareware)
• Pros: uncompresses most file formats
• Cons: none
• Remote location: <URL:ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic/Mac/Helpers/drop-stuff-with-ee-352.hqx>
• Tricks location: <URL:http://152.1.24.177/teaching/archives/drop-stuff-with-ee-352.hqx>

Essencially, DropStuff w/Expander Enhancer is an archiving utility. It allows you to "drag and drop" files and folders on to it and have the automatically become StuffIt archives and optionally BinHex'ed as well. These functions are more for information providers rather than information consumers.

The real use of this program for information consumers becomes apparent when DropStuff is used in conjunction with StuffIt Expander. DropStuff comes with an extension called StuffIt Engine. This file allows StuffIt Expander to automatically uncompress PC ZIP archives (.zip), PC ARC archives (.arc), AppleLink Packages (.pkg), GNU ZIP files (.zip), Unix compressed archives (.Z), and uuencoded files (.uu). The only prevalent compression method not supported by StuffIt Expander in conjunction with DropStuff is are Unix tape archives (.tar).

MIME type: application/x-compressed
Filename extensions: .z, .zip, .gz, or .tgz

Eric last edited this page on September 26, 1995. Please feel free to send comments.