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In article <Bu6tI0.226@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (.) writes:
> millernw@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Neal Miller) writes:
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>>Gordon.Edwards@AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Gordon Edwards) writes:
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>>>What are people's opinions on Stacker?
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>>>Are there many horror stories or is it generally pretty stable software?
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>>>Any comments appreciated.  
>>>Please post, I'm sure others are interested.
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>>	Well, if you don't mind mashing each and every file on your drive
>>into a single file by using an irreversible compression process with no
>>"uninstall" feature, PLUS not knowing quite how much space you have left on
>>your hard drive at any given time, hey, it's fine!  But I wouldn't put it 
>>on *my* system.  I suppose if you have a tape backup for emergencies, it's 
>>ok.  It won't save you as much space, but try PKLITE.  It only works on 
>>some .EXE and .COM files, but it's 100% reversible if something goes wrong.
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> I've heard stacker is reversable.  Also, if you do a directory, it will tell
> you how much space you have left, to an extent.  Okay, okay, zipped files,
> arjed files, and other compressed files will take up twice as much space,
> but on the general whole, the amount of space it gives you is accurate, since
> it is updated.
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> 			Frank Wang
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I've been running Stacker v1.?? for almost 2 years without any stacker related
problems... (I did have a total hard drive failure... she was past
her prime anyway...)
 
=Z.B.=
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