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Article #1665Re: Opinions on Stacker
From: Robert Osterlund
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 21:27
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 21:27
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Include me in the group of highly satisfied Stacker customers (so far). I should mention an advantage that no one else has brought up: Stacker will effectively double the size of any disk caches or RAM disks you have (when reading/writing Stacker compressed files). So, I have a 1-1/2 MB disk cache and a 1/2 MB RAM disk, but their effective sizes are 3 MB and 1 MB respectively. It's like my 6 MB system really has 8 MB! The only other thing I can add to this discussion is to advise that you run SCHECK and, if you have it, Norton Disk Doctor (or a similar program) at every system boot (automatically, from AUTOEXEC.BAT of course). And do regular backups. It pays to be careful. Bob Osterlund berto@clio.spc.uchicago.edu SSPPCC--University of Chicago
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!uchinews!cicero.spc.uchicago.edu!spcberto From: spcberto@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund) Subject: Re: Opinions on Stacker Message-ID: <1992Sep9.212706.27859@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Organization: U of Chicago, SSPPCC References: <Steven_P._Oliver.036u@bearsden.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:27:06 GMT Lines: 18