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- From: cording@sorokin.anu.edu.au (Dean Cording)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Superstor VS. Stacker...You Make The Call
- Date: 27 Dec 92 04:43:13 GMT
- Organization: Australian National University
- Lines: 45
- Message-ID: <cording.725431393@sorokin>
- References: <1992Dec3.151048.3038@rtsg.mot.com> <1992Dec4.131512.1@vax1.bham.ac.uk> <johne.725145261@tule>
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- >In article <1992Dec3.151048.3038@rtsg.mot.com>, planger@mailbox.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com (Paul Langer) writes:
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- >> My hard drive is rapidly approaching zero free disk space. I would
- >> like to purchase a compression program. So far, I mainly heard about
- >> the two programs Superstor and Stacker. I would like to know which is
- >> the best for the following setup. I have a 125 MEG hard drive. Half of
- >> it is for work/school like Windows, Mathcad, Quicken, Word Perfect, etc.
- >> The other half is for games like Ultima. Should I compress the 'work'
- >> part of the drive and leave the game part alone (i.e. partition) ? I
- >> know many games will not work with the compression programs like Ultima.
- >>
- >> Please give me your views and experience with these programs...
- >>
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- I have been using SuperStor v1.3 for twelve months now with no problems,
- except doing an occasional del *.* in my root directory which makes
- it difficult to mount the compressed disk.
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- I was using it to compress two 40 meg drives on my system and I ended up
- with 140-150meg of usable space. Recently I have installed a 200meg drive
- and it is compressed to give me about 360meg of usable space. I compressed
- everything including Windows and DOS programs and did not find any
- incompatibilities. The one exception is that you cannot have a Windows
- permanate swap file on a compress drive. I created a small 4meg partition
- and placed it there.
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- In my opinion SuperStor has a much nicer method of mounting compressed drives
- than Stacker does. SuperStor's driver opens a file containing the compressed
- drive and intercepts reads and writes on the drive, performing the operations
- on the file instead. Stacker goes through a messy business of installing
- a new device driver to read its compressed file as a drive and then swaps
- the new drive with the C drive which uses up another drive letter. You can
- still access the uncompressed drive by going to the D drive. SuperStor is
- also alot more transparent in it's operation than Stacker. Version 2
- of SuperStor is suppose to be very good but I haven't seen it yet.
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- Dean Cording The above opinions belong to me, myself and I
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