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Re: Stacker 3.0 Beta

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From: David C. Barber
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 17:42
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In <4219@novavax.UUCP> grohol@novavax.UUCP (John Grohol) writes:


>Recently reviewed a copy of Stacker 3.0 on a friend's machine...

>Let me tell ya, it is much more user-friendly than old Stackers,
>and has a Remove-stacked volume option that actually works!

>As for re-stacking a drive that was stacked under 2.0....
>My friend claims he got a spare 20 megs on his 300 meg hard
>drive, when restacking under 3.0. Stacker 3.0 has an option
>where you can specify the degree of compression you'd like
>in a trade off with speed. Low compression, high speed,
>medium compression, medium speed, high compression, low speed.
>In truth, we found very few differences between the three 
>settings...

>Not sure the official release date of this, but look for it
>soon, as this copy was stable as a table!

>-John

>-- 
>  "Evil will not destroy            \_\_    John M. Grohol, M.S.
>   When love is in your hand         \_\_   Center for Psychological Studies
>   Now can we make believe            \_\_  Nova Univ, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
>   The mysteries we understand." -SBH  \_\_ grohol@novavax.nova.edu

Stacker 3.0 is out.  I got my upgrade copy on Friday.


Without change,                         *David Barber*
   nothing can ever get better.            @}-->----

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