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- From: nbo@ravel.udel.edu (Adam Jay Geffner)
- Subject: Re: Stacker 2.0!
- Message-ID: <Bxz8Fs.4wF@news.udel.edu>
- Sender: Adam Geffner nbo@brahms.udel.edu
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- Organization: University of Delaware
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:52:39 GMT
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- >In <5277@calmasd.Prime.COM> bfw@calmasd.Prime.COM (Brian Wilson) writes:
- >
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >The new version supposedly recognizes that QEMM optimize is running,
- >and you should probably still get 630K freee WITH stacker running.
- >
- >Phil
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-
- Hi everyone, this is not specifically in response to the above, thats
- why I don't really have it listed as a follow up. I do however
- have a problem with Stacker 2.0 as well. Up until now, I've had no
- complaints, no problems, and it has compacted my data at a 2:1 ratio.
- However, starting about 2 weeks ago, my storage space left on
- my 40 meg drive (81 when stacked) which was down to roughly
- 5 megs (vs the 81), started top increase in storage space.
- Even when I staretd to save additional stuff on the computer, it kept
- increasing little by little. It is now upto about 10 megs, and I have
- saved close to if not over another meg of stuff since then. On the
- other hadn, when I check my D drive, it shows that about 41 of my 42
- meg drive has been used. If that is so, which according to further
- probing, seems ot be true, then I should only have about 2 or 3 megs
- available, not 10. Also, it is not just that 1 of my programs is
- reading it incorrectly, as 10 megs, so far, all that I use to check
- it (i.e. Dirworks, Laptop File Manager, dos, etc.) say the same.
-
- DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON ???
- Please mail all info, or possible reasons to me at my e-mail account!
- Thanx...
- Adam Geffner nbo@brahms.udel.edu
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