Aladdin ships StuffIt Deluxe 5.1.5 Update and StuffIt Deluxe 5.5 Upgrade;<br>

Provides Mac OS 9 compatibility Aladdin Systems today released a free Mac OS 9 compatible StuffIt Deluxe 5.1.5 update for registered StuffIt 5.0 - 5.1 users. In addition, they released a (not free) StuffIt Deluxe 5.5 upgrade. The upgrade also provides Mac OS 9 compatibility, but adds additional features not available in the Update. These new features include:

• Faster compression and expansion (an average speed improvement of 20%)
• Make self-extracting archives for Windows (.exe) from your Mac
• Archive CM provides easier access to the contents of a StuffIt archive via the Macintosh Contextual Menu, allowing more ways to retrieve specific items within a compressed archive
• Create StuffIt or Zip files to send to Windows users - now there's a choice if users want to create a Zip archive or use the superior StuffIt compression
• Magic Tools - Four new tools were added to Magic Menu
• Secure Delete allows users to permanently and completely remove sensitive information by securely deleting it from their disk(s)
• ...and more

If customers purchased StuffIt Deluxe 5.0.x or 5.1 on October 16, 1999 or later and have a proof of purchase, they are entitled to a free StuffIt Deluxe 5.5 upgrade.