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- From: law30129@nusunix1.nus.sg (GNANASIHAMANI KANNAN)
- Subject: Re: Superstor VS. Stacker...You Make The Call
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.070616.16464@nuscc.nus.sg>
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- Organization: National University of Singapore
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 07:06:16 GMT
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- Dean Cording (cording@sorokin.anu.edu.au) wrote:
- : >In article <1992Dec3.151048.3038@rtsg.mot.com>, planger@mailbox.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com (Paul Langer) writes:
- : >B
- : >> 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...
- : >>
- : I've been using Stacker 2.0 for months without any problem.
- I have a 80 Meg HD which resulted in abt 150 Meg after stacking.
- If you've heard negative things about Stacker 2.0 - dont believe
- it. Problems are probably due to stupidity of user. Common
- mistake - defragging the HD using commercial software rather than
- the one provided by Stac.
- BUT dont get Stacker 3.0 - been hearing that its got muchos
- poblemos.
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- KANNAN
- NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
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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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