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In article <rdippold.717790642@qualcom> rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
>dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
>>After reading Undocumented DOS, it seems relatively straightforward to 
>>install a TSR that looks like a network drive, but actually stores all data 
>>in a single file (perhaps a compressed archive) on the original drive.  
>
>Well, they're not free, but Stacker and Doubledisk already do this.
>For the price (about $80 US, I think), it might not be worth your time
>to do it yourself. 

A couple of people have suggested this by email. I don't know Doubledisk, 
but when I tried Stacker a couple of years ago, it didn't do what I want.  
In fact, changing my cluster size to 512 bytes gave me *more* compression 
than Stacker gives.  What I'm proposing is essentially to change my cluster 
size to 1 byte, avoiding the slack at the end of file allocations altogether.

The disadvantage, of course, is that if I ever tried writing to one of these
"disks" I could really get a mess of fragmented files; however, I'm willing 
to make the disk read-only, and have a separate utility to create it.

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca