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MSDOS 5

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From: Johannes Beekhuizen
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:48
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Hello 911,

On Tuesday December 15 1992, 911  Kevin Thomas wrote to All:

 9KT> I have MSDOS 5 running my PC and I was told the there is a command or
 9KT> utility which can give you more hard disk space, I have Nortons and
 9KT> run Speed Disk regularly. Is it true that you can make more space on
 9KT> your hard disk and if so where would you get such a utility. Kevin.

There are several. I have been using Stacker with lots of success, average
compression a bit over 2:1 - so I get 78 Mbytes on my 40 Mbyte disk drive.
Others are DoubleDisk (which will come with MSDOS 6.0) and SuperStore.

Regards,

           Hans.

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Subject: MSDOS 5
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