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StuffIt Standard 9.5

Last updated
January 18, 2007

Reviewed by
Lincoln Spector

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Price when rated - $25
Design and usability - Good: 75 Ease of archive creation - Good Ease of archive extraction - Very Good Documentation - Fair
Performance - Superior: 90 Compressed test-file size - 89% Archive-creation speed - Superior
Features - Very Good: 83 Supported archive-creation formats - .sit, .sitx, zip, tar, lha, bin, hqx, pf, as, encoded files (uuencode, xxencode, yENC, BinHex, MIME) Supported archive-exctraction formats - .sit, .sitx, .zip, .rar, .bz2, .gz, .cab, .arj, .arc, .tgz, .tz, .bin, .pf, .hqx, z, .tz, .lha, .tbz2, .as, .ntx, encoded files (uuencode, xxencode, yENC, BinHex, MIME) Encryption options - RC4-512, AES-256, BlowFish-448, DES-64 Tool for searching within archives - Yes Automated backups - No Help wizards - Yes Command-line support - No Self-extracting executable creation - Yes Split-volume creation - Yes Integrated image preview - Displays thumbnails only for SITX archives you've specially created. Microsoft Office integration - No Integrated FTP capabilities - Yes Customizable interface/skin support - No Supported operating systems - Windows 98/Me, 2000, XP, Mac OS X Multiple language versions available - Yes