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Gordon.Edwards@AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Gordon Edwards) writes:

> What are people's opinions on Stacker?

You should see a broad range of opinions.

> Are there many horror stories or is it generally pretty stable software?

You will see a lot of horror stories, and you'll see a lot of people
tell you it's very stable.  I am one of the latter.

Stacker is not like plugging in a hard disk (ie, plug it in, turn it on,
set some parameters, and forget about it).  However, it is much cheaper
than a hard disk and is fairly easy to use.

One of the reasons people get royally confused with Stacker is that the
install program will default to compressing the entire existing hard
disk and then swapping it with the uncompressed disk.  This makes the
hard disk "magically" appear twice as large, but software that tries to
manipulate the startup sequence (AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS) will
almost always get confused, and so will the user.

I recommend buying Stacker because it works very well.  I also recommend
that you read the manual thoroughly and try to figure out what Stacker
is going to do on your system, before you do anything with it.

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