StuffIt™ for Windows 
This file gives you additional information on the release of Aladdin's StuffIt 5.5 for Windows™ 95, 98, NT 4.0, and 2000 including any known issues or potential conflicts of which you should be aware.

Minimum System Requirements
StuffIt for Windows requires a minimum of a 486/100MHz processor (Pentium is recommended), Windows 95, 16 MB of installed RAM, and 9 MB of hard disk space for installation.

Thank You!
We at Aladdin Systems thank you for purchasing our product and for your continued support. 

What's New
StuffIt (.sit) or Zip compression that is as easy as drag, drop, done.  Drag and drop files or folders onto the DropZip or DropStuff shortcuts and out comes your archive. No interface to learn, no wizards to walk through, just the best compression with ease. StuffIt archives are consistently smaller than ZIP maximum compressed files, even smaller than RAR!

Expansion of archives with Aladdin Expander is as easy as double clicking on an associated archive. That's it!

Compress and email is readily available from the context menu.  Right mouse click on the file/folder you want to compress and mail and choose either stuffing or zipping and mail.  

For those who use compression applications to post archives in a variety of formats, or who often manipulate archive contents, we have provided the StuffIt Browser for compression and expansion through an Explorer interface.  

StuffIt features are:

   Compression
These compression formats are built into the StuffIt Browser: 
StuffIt/SIT - None, Fastest, Maximum
ZIP - None to Maximum, Multi-Volume, self-extracting, SFX 
CAB - Multi-Volume 
TAR - .tar, tar.gz, .gz 
Optional supported compressors (shareware, purchased separately)
ACE - <http://www.winace.com>
ARJ - <http://www.arjsoftware.com>
RAR - <http://www.rarsoft.net>
These encoding formats are also supported:
Mime/Base64
Uuencode

Multi-Volume Zip archives made with the StuffIt Browser are unique in that you are able to extract files from any segment without re-joining the entire archive.  The entire archive may be re-joined for complete extraction when using the StuffIt Browser.  

StuffIt Browser's SFX option allows you to specify the target path for self-extraction, presenting comments/instructions to the recipient, a command line option for launching the extracted archive, and the ability to display a custom icon for the archive.

   Expansion
StuffIt Browser supports expansion/extraction of these archive types:
SIT (StuffIt 1.5.1, 3.0 and 5.0 formats) 
ZIP 
CAB 
TAR - tar, tar.gz, gz 
ACE 
ARJ 
ARC 
RAR 
LZH 
StuffIt Browser will decode these formats:
MIME/Base 64
Uuencoded files
Aladdin Expander will also decode these additional formats
HQX (BinHex) a Macintosh encoding format
BIN (MacBinary) when coming from a Macintosh computer.  

Other Features
Drag and drop within the Explorer shell
Support for QuickView and other viewers (viewers purchased separately)
Support for editing text documents within compressed Zip archives
Anti-Virus support (AV applications purchased separately)
File manipulation as if within Explorer
Support for mounting mapped network volumes
An Archive History log with the ability to add comments about the archive and its contents.

Known Issues
If you try to compress a file while it is open in an application, that file will be skipped and will not appear as part of the resulting archive.  Please contact our support Web site (http://www.aladdinsys.com/support) for FAQs and updates.

While the StuffIt Browser does allow the extraction of selected files from within StuffIt archives, manipulation of archive contents in StuffIt archives is not supported in this version of StuffIt for Windows. 

StuffIt Browser does not support password protected ARC archives.  An attempt to expand one of these files will produce a message that states:" Bad CRC or possible incorrect password."  You will need to use another ARC expansion utility to access the contents of this archive.

Potential Conflicts and Workarounds
When using DropStuff or DropZip, if Windows Messaging (MAPI) support is not installed, you will need to add the Windows Messaging component to take advantage of the Stuff and Mail feature. From the Start Menu, select Settings, Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Windows Setup, Windows Messaging (may be called Microsoft Exchange) to add the Windows Messaging component. If no mailer is installed, we recommend installing the Internet Mail Services component (may be called Microsoft Mail Services) at the same time. Once MAPI is installed, you will need to enable your mail program to use MAPI messaging as well. For example, to use Eudora as the default MAPI mailer, from Eudora, select Tools, Options, MAPI to set Use Eudora MAPI server to Always.

Contacting Aladdin Systems
If you would like more information about our other award-winning products, just ask us. We have products for both Windows (95, 98, 2000, and NT 4.0) and Macintosh. For the quickest way to learn more about Aladdin's products, visit our Web site listed below.

	Aladdin Systems, Inc.
	165 Westridge Drive
	Watsonville, CA 95076, USA

	Phone:   (831) 761-6200
	FAX:       (831) 761-6206

	Web:	http://www.aladdinsys.com

Technical Support:   http://www.aladdinsys.com/support 
Customer Service:   service@aladdinsys.com
General Info:	           info@aladdinsys.com

Copyright © 1998-2000 Aladdin Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. DropStuff, DropZip, Aladdin Expander, StuffIt Browser, StuffIt, and the Aladdin logo are trademarks of Aladdin Systems, Inc. All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

Revised	09/08/2000