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- From: leary@progress.COM (James Leary)
- Subject: Re: Stac Software Customer Service (comments welcome)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.205954.14495@progress.com>
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- Organization: Progress Software Corp.
- References: <1992Dec23.015609.29593@sarah.albany.edu> <oneil.725115395@cwis> <BzxzA9.JyI@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <1992Dec28.190418.17291@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:59:54 GMT
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- mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
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- >In <BzxzA9.JyI@ucunix.san.uc.edu> dayja@ucunix.san.uc.edu (James A Day) writes:
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- >>During the installation process it asks you how much to compress a
- >>file(ie 2:1, 3:1) but even if you say 3:1 it still only compresses to
- >>2:1 although the drive says differently install WordPerfect takes up
- >>twice as much to install on the hard disk(or at least enough to cover
- >>the fact that the compression of stacker doesn't work.) Any suggestions
- >>for solutions to this problem?
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- >I'm not sure what you're talking about here, but what it is asking you
- >for is ESTIMATED COMPRESSION, not how much it should compress. The
- >file will only compress as much as it will compress, and that's all
- >there is to it. What do you think they do, simply magically throw
- >away 2/3 of the data if you tell them you want 3:1 compression, or
- >what?
-
- >Since I don't see what your problem is, I'm not sure what you're
- >looking for in the way of a solution. Why do you say "the compression
- >of stacker doesn't work"?
-
- >Do you know what you're doing?
-
- By answering the way you did, do you? If you cannot answer the person's
- question without insulting them, then shut-up and don't answer at all.
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