Re: [NTLK] .sit files, how do you install them?

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Thu Jan 15 2004 - 04:54:04 PST


Aynthem wrote:
> A word of warning from a lurker: I just spent three hours the other
> night trying to uncompress a .sit file on my Win98 Original box.
>
> The newest version of Stuffit, 8.0, available at the Aladdin Systems
> website, does *not* work with Win98 original. It gave me a missing
> .dll file error. As far as I can tell, nowhere on the Stuffit for
> Windows site is a System Requirement list.
>
> I eventually found Stuffit 6.0 on Aladdin's FTP server under the old

There is also a copy of Aladdin Expander 5.11 in UNNA:

http://dc.unna.org/unna/windows/ALEX511.EXE

It's almost like Aladdin Systems likes to punish Windows users whenever they
have to decompress one simple file by inflicting mountains of unneeded program
on them.

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