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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Stac Software Customer Service (comments welcome)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.152515.6317@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec23.015609.29593@sarah.albany.edu> <oneil.725115395@cwis> <BzxzA9.JyI@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <1992Dec28.190418.17291@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Dec28.205954.14495@progress.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:25:15 GMT
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- In <1992Dec28.205954.14495@progress.com> leary@progress.COM (James Leary) writes:
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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?
-
- >>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.
-
- If they can't ask a coherent question, how can they get an answer?
- Just when did we hold the election to vote you in as 'Miss Manners'?
- I can answer his question if he can ask one that makes any kind of
- sense. Can you?
-
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- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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