Stuffed by Stuffit - Help Needed!

[Feline]

I have been landed with some MS Word files that were created on an Apple Mac, and then subsequently compressed using Stuffit. The originator then disposed of that Mac, and is now unable to decompress the files. And I can't open them either using Stuffit version 5 (?)
Can any of you Apple jockeys fill me in as to whether later versions of Stuffit are backwards compatible, and if not, how the hell/where the hell does one get an older version of Stuffit that might be able to open such a file? Or even point me towards the publisher of Stuffit?
Any help would be gratefully received (could earn me a couple of brownie points!)

[Mad Monk]

Stuffit Expander is availlable free from http://www.aladdinsys.com/..

Provided you are running the correct version for your OS, then Stuffit is backwards compatible and cross platform.

[bblank]

You could try MindExpander (http://www.mindvision.com/Consumer/products/ME/Default.asp) (freeware).

If all else fails then I probably could dig up a version of Stuffit Expander
from about 1996. It's a Windows application but even so the Mac files it
decodes work on Macs - at least BinHex (*.hqx) files - I never tried it with
*.sit or *.sea files.