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- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Steve.Withers
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: Stacker for OS/2....March?
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 11:21:43 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.112143.10725@actrix.gen.nz>
- References: <1993Jan20.014306.7028@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <C16HHK.7DI@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> <s_fuller.727636320@vincent2.iastate.edu>
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
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- In article <s_fuller.727636320@vincent2.iastate.edu> s_fuller@iastate.edu (Steve Fuller) writes:
- > In <C16HHK.7DI@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> aaa@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Simon Fowler) writes:
- >
- > >Stacker will only create virtual FAT drives in FAT partitions.
- >
- > Is it just me, or does the hinting going around that Stacker for
- > OS/2 won't support HPFS make it completely bogus for most
- > people??? Sounds more like a compatibility upgrade to than
- > anything. I have a 212 Meg drive and I would like to get some
- > more space available on it, but I'm NOT about to go back to FAT
- > just to gain a 100 meg of drive space....
-
- I have since heard from others here in NZ who met the Stac rep that they made
- exactly this point. In one case, the guy showed her DCF/2 specs and info and
- said:"This is your competition......you will have to be equal or better to
- sell OS/2 disk compression.....".
-
- I think HPFS took her completely off-guard. At first, i don't think she knew
- what it was........though she certainly did by the time she left New Zealand.
-
- Steve
-
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