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- From: eldon@netcom.com (Eldon B. Tucker)
- Subject: filesystem compression under NT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.152645.27305@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:26:45 GMT
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- My question is regarding disk compression and DOS program
- compatibility under Win NT. I have 2 200MB hard drives: drive
- C is uncompressed and drive D is compressed under Stacker. I
- do not have enough free disk space to hold all my data and
- files uncompressed, but would like access to them both under
- Win NT and from DOS.
-
- To accomplish this, I need to know:
-
- * Can I create a NT filesystem that supports compression?
-
- * Is this type of filesystem stable, or is my data at risk of
- being corrupted and lost?
-
- * Could "cpbackup" be used to backup, and "cpbackup" under a
- DOS window under NT be used to restore my files to that
- filesystem?
-
- And having done this--if it's possible--I'd then need to know
- how good NT is about running DOS programs under a DOS window.
- Programs that I have that come to mind are foxpro 2.0,
- wordperfect 5.1 for dos, automap, and procomm plus 2.0 for dos.
-