I just purchased my first Macintosh computer to work with shareware files. Of course they are distributed compressed and require a program to decompress them. Stuffit by Aladdin Systems, Inc. is the most popular. Unfortunately it too is distributed compressed and can't be installed unless you already have it. I searched the Internet for a solution to this "chicken and the egg" problem and didn't find one.

My solution will offend the Mac purists, but it works as long as you have access to a PC. The following directions will give you a working install disk for Stuffit version 3.5. You will want to download and upgrade to the latest version, but this will get you started.

1. Download my pc2stuff.exe file
   
2. Move pc2stuff.exe to an empty directory
   
3. Double click on it if in Windows, or type "pc2stuff" if in DOS (this will extract the files from the archive)
   
4. Put a 3 1/2 in 1.44meg floppy disk in the A: drive and type MAKEDISK
   
5. Use your new disk to install Stuffit on your Mac
   
6. Go to the Aladdin Systems, Inc. home page, download and install the latest version

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