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- From: wu@mdd.comm.mot.com (Philip Wu)
- Subject: Re: Stacker 3.0!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.174633.1451@mdd.comm.mot.com>
- Sender: news@mdd.comm.mot.com
- Organization: Motorola - Mobile Data Division; Richmond, BC
- References: <1dudt9INNngj@agate.berkeley.edu> <BxvyIB.2B0@cup.hp.com> <5277@calmasd.Prime.COM>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:46:33 GMT
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- In <5277@calmasd.Prime.COM> bfw@calmasd.Prime.COM (Brian Wilson) writes:
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- >Since I purchase 2.0 on 10/25 I immediately called their BBS to see if
- >I qualified for a free upgrade. The free upgrade window is 10/26 ->
- >11/30. I missed it by a day. What a bummer. I am not even using the
- >2.0 version because the first time I tried to stack an existing disk
- >it destroyed all my info. The second time on my newlly formatted hard
- >disk the stacked partition upset chkdsk very much. I think the
- >problem was with QEMM386. They say they support it and everything,
- >but I quit using QEMM and my third attempt to create a stacked
- >partition was successful. Unfortunately, after I loaded a 80 MB
- >stacked partition with a lot of my data (compiler, games, mathmatica)
- >I only got a 1.3 compression ratio and it wasn't worth the trouble.
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- The new version supposedly recognizes that QEMM optimize is running,
- and you should probably still get 630K freee WITH stacker running.
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- Phil
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