Stuff It 1.5 Users Guide

StuffIt User’s Guide Version 1.5 StuffIt The Macintosh® Archive Utility for the Apple® Macintosh Written by Raymond Lau. StuffIt and UnStuffIt are © 1987,1988 by Raymond Lau. All Rights Reserved. Written in LightspeedC™, thus portions ©1986, THINK Technologies, Incorporated. This User’s Guide is written by Raymond Lau and is © 1988 by Raymond Lau. Distribution and usage are restricted. See Distribution/Usage in Chapter 1. This document was set in Times® and Apple Courier with MacWrite®. StuffIt 1.5 1 1 . Preface/Introduction What is S t u f f I t? StuffIt is a useful file archiving utility that allows you to do the following: 1. Gather many files together into a single “archive”. 2. Optionally compress those files if desired. 3. Optionally encrypt those files if desired. 4. Optionally generate a report of the entries in an archive. 5. Segment large files for transmission by modem or for archiving from a hard disk onto floppies. As a convenience, StuffIt can also: 6. Encode and Decode BinHex4 .hqx files. 7. UnPack PackIt II/III “.pit” files and optionally convert them to the StuffIt format. Of course, StuffIt also allows you to “extract” files that have previously been archived (or “stuffed”) by you or another user. Why use S t u f f I t? Gathering many files into an archive allows you to transmit many files as one over a modem or network. Compression of the files saves disk space and/or on-line time when transmitting or receiving files by disk or modem, respectively. Compression of rarely used files will allow you to better utilize available disk space. Encrypting files will protect your sensitive data from prying eyes. About the author: StuffIt and its accompanying documentation were written by Raymond Lau with the help of a few other people. Work on StuffIt started around July-August, 1987 and has continued ever since. The author is devoted to continuously improving and updating StuffIt and its utilities, and he welcomes your suggestions, criticisms and other input. He may be reached at: U.S.P.S.: MacNET®: RayLau Raymond Lau GEnie™: RayLau 100-04 70 Ave. CompuServe®: 76174, 2617 Forest Hills, NY 11375-5133 Usenet: raylau@dasys1.UUCP United States of America Delphi™: RaymondLau Distribution/Usage: StuffIt is copyrighted in its entirety by Raymond Lau. It is being offered for distribut…