StuffIt Lite is a sleek, easy to use application that provides compression, encryption, and archiving capabilities. You can use it to compress and combine infrequently used files into archives to free up disk space. Archives can be stored on floppies for backup. For faster transmission, send StuffIt archives to your friends using your modem or over a network. Most electronic bulletin boards ask you to use StuffIt archives so everyone saves money and time when downloading your files. StuffIt Lite can help you create and manipulate StuffIt archives easily and efficiently.
Please remember that StuffIt Lite is shareware. This means that after you have used StuffIt Lite for 15 days and plan to use it further, you must send in the $25 registration fee. Registering your copy will entitle you to many benefits resulting from being a registered user, and will also enable additional features in the product! We encourage you to give the original StuffIt Lite Installer (not your registered copy) to anyone who also wishes to evaluate StuffIt Lite for their use.
To learn more about using StuffIt Lite and all the benefits it provides, open the StuffIt Lite User╒s Guide. The User╒s Guide will be located in the StuffIt Lite Install Folder after you have installed.
Thanks for using StuffIt Lite and for supporting shareware. Aladdin Systems is committed to providing you the best software and the best customer service in the industry. If you have any questions, please contact us at Aladdin Systems, Inc., 165 Westridge Drive, Watsonville, CA 95076. Our phone number is (408) 761-6200. We can also be reached on any of the following online services:
America Online and AppleLink: ALADDIN
GEnie: ALADDINSYS
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Internet: aladdin@well.sf.ca.us
Shown below is a paragraph explaining the StuffIt Lite Installer and some notes to users of StuffIt Classic, the previous version of StuffIt Lite.
The StuffIt Lite Installer
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The purpose of the StuffIt Lite installer is twofold: to combine the several files and folders into one easily distributable package, and to simplify placing these files and folders on your disks in specific folders. The installer is just a StuffIt archive which has been made into a self-extracting archive with some minor modifications. The installer will replace files having the same name and location as the files which the installer wants to install. The installer creates a folder called ╥StuffIt Lite¬ Install Folder╙ at the location you chose which includes the following files: StuffIt Lite User╒s Guide, and the StuffIt Lite¬ 3.0 application. The installer also creates an Aladdin folder in the Extensions folder of your startup disk╒s System folder and places some files and folders within it.
To Existing StuffIt Classic Users Only
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For safety reasons and to allow you to keep control of all your files and folders, the StuffIt Lite installer will not delete or move files and folders previously installed by the StuffIt Classic 1.6 installer. If you wish to continue using StuffIt Classic, there are no further steps required. If you wish to entirely replace StuffIt Classic with StuffIt Lite, there are several things you need to know.
Due to customer demand, auxiliary files and folders that StuffIt uses have been combined into an ╥Aladdin folder╙. The Aladdin folder is located in the Extensions folder of the startup disk╒s System folder.
Shown below are the folders installed by StuffIt Classic and what you can do to consolidate them.
Encryptors
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The Encryptors folder can be found in the System folder. StuffIt Lite has built-in encryption (which is enabled by registering your copy) and so does not use external encryptors at all. You may delete the Encryptors folder entirely.
Help
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The Help folder can be found in the System folder. It is not used by StuffIt Lite. If you will not be using StuffIt Classic, you may delete the StuffIt Classic Help file. If you don╒t have any other Aladdin Systems product, you may delete the Online Documentation Toolkit¬ as well. If no other vendors used this folder to place their Help files, and if no files are remaining in the folder, you may delete this folder entirely.
Optimizers
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Optimizers are no longer supported during Stuff operations. StuffIt Lite will use optimizers that it finds in the Optimizers folder during an UnStuff operation if the file being UnStuffed was optimized. If you don╒t have any archives that contain items which have been optimized, feel free to delete the Optimizers folder entirely. If you do have optimized items in archives, then you will need to move the Optimizers folder into the Aladdin folder.
Preferences
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The Preferences folder is found in the System folder. Delete the StuffIt Classic Preferences file found within the folder since the file will no longer be used. Do not delete the entire folder since it is the location of other application preferences files as well as the StuffIt Lite Preference file.
Self-UnStuffers
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The Self-UnStuffers folder is found in the StuffIt Classic or System folder. Since the ability to create Self-UnStuffers in built into StuffIt Lite, the Self-UnStuffers folder is no longer needed and can be deleted.
StuffIt Classic folder
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You chose the location of this folder when installing StuffIt Classic. The folder originally contained the StuffIt Classic application, the Self-UnStuffers folder, and the StuffIt Classic User╒s Guide. This entire folder can be deleted.
Translators
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All previously available translators are compatible with StuffIt Lite. However, you will need to move these translators from the existing Translators folder (which is found in the System folder of your startup disk) into the Translators folder found in the Aladdin folder. Make sure that the newly installed StuffIt Lite translators are not replaced by older translators. Once you have moved the previous translators, you may delete the Translators folder from your System folder.
