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Article #10453Re: Stacker 3.0 Beta
From: David C. Barber
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 17:42
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. @}-->---- UUCP: ucsd!crash!dbarber INET: dbarber@crash.cts.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!convex!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!news!nosc!crash!dbarber From: dbarber@crash.cts.com (David C. Barber) Subject: Re: Stacker 3.0 Beta Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA Distribution: comp Date: 15 Nov 92 17:42:36 GMT Message-ID: <dbarber.721849356@crash.cts.com> References: <4219@novavax.UUCP> Keywords: stacker Lines: 36