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From: victor porguen
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 06:51

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calvert@QueensU.CA (John Calvert) writes:

>Does anyone have any experience with these two disk compression programs?
>I am hesitant to load them without some strong recommandations. How do
>they compare to commercial software like Stacker? My hard disk is hovering

Diet compares pretty well! In fact, Diet has a tremendous advantage:
it doesn't cost anything! 

>around 10M free which cramps my work. What I'm most likely to compress
>are programs such as misc utilities and my editor and compilers.

Diet will compress/decompress automatically text files, executables,
device drivers, even COMMAND.COM itself, I think... <g>.

>Thanks in advance for any comments offered.

You're absolutely welcome.

                                     VP

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