Re: Stacker 3.0!

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From: Philip Wu
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:46

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In <5277@calmasd.Prime.COM> bfw@calmasd.Prime.COM (Brian Wilson) writes:


>Since I purchase 2.0 on 10/25 I immediately called their BBS to see if
>I qualified for a free upgrade.  The free upgrade window is 10/26 ->
>11/30.  I missed it by a day.  What a bummer.  I am not even using the
>2.0 version because the first time I tried to stack an existing disk
>it destroyed all my info.  The second time on my newlly formatted hard
>disk the stacked partition upset chkdsk very much.  I think the
>problem was with QEMM386.  They say they support it and everything,
>but I quit using QEMM and my third attempt to create a stacked
>partition was successful.  Unfortunately, after I loaded a 80 MB
>stacked partition with a lot of my data (compiler, games, mathmatica)
>I only got a 1.3 compression ratio and it wasn't worth the trouble.

The new version supposedly recognizes that QEMM optimize is running,
and you should probably still get 630K freee WITH stacker running.

Phil

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