PRNewswire: Aladdin Systems Inc. Announces Aladdin Expander for Linux Public Beta Test | Linux Today

PRNewswire: Aladdin Systems Inc. Announces Aladdin Expander for Linux Public Beta Test

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 6, 2000

“Linux Users Now Have a Decompression Utility and Universal
File Access Solution That Allows Zip and StuffIt Access
Capabilities, and More.”

“Aladdin Systems, Inc.,… the developer of the StuffIt
compression standard, today commenced a public beta of its freeware
Aladdin Expander for Corel Linux and Red Hat Linux v6. Expander for
the Linux OS gives users an easy way to expand compressed and
encoded files downloaded from the Internet or received as email
attachments.”

“Expander for Linux is a command line utility that decompresses
and decodes… compression and encoding formats from the Unix,
Windows and Macintosh platforms…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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