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>If you were asking about improvements to 2.0 then look previous postings
>where was a notify about these. Someone said that speed was better but
>compress ratio has not changed (at least substantionally).

If you're willing to sacrifice a _small_ bit of speed for greater 
compression, you can supposedly get up to 10% more space. In my own 
experience, when I went to 3.0 and restacked I gained about 8 extra megs on 
one 135MB stacker drive, and 4 on another of roughly equal size (the lower 
figure was because the second drive has a lot of GIFs among other things). I 
have a 486/33 and have not noticed any speed penalty, though if you have a 
slower processer your experience might be a bit different.

I do find the utilities a lot easier to use, since everything can now be 
done from Windows (which I use a lot). Stacker does require you to disable 
Fastopen before "optimizing" (defragmenting) a stacker drive, a minor 
nuisance which you'd think they could have built a way around. I have not 
found any software incompatibilities, either with Windows or DOS programs. I 
also like being able to use stacked and unstacked floppies interchangeably 
without a lot of rigamarole about "mounting" and "demounting" drives.

Lamont Downs
downs@helios.nevada.edu