Re: Opinions on Stacker

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From: Mark Runyan
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:27

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Gordon.Edwards@AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Gordon Edwards) writes:
>What are people's opinions on Stacker?

Well, I wasn't happy with the virtual disk approach that it uses, but
it gets the job done (providing what appears to be a little more disk
space).  I think I prefer the method of PKLITE, but for general use,
Stacker hasn't caused any problems.  Of course, any diskettes that I've
stacked can't be taken to another system unless the other system is
running Stacker...

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

I was put off by the way you had to reserve disk space and it would
create a `virtual' disk (e.g. my C drive is now C: and D:, with D: being
the `Stacked' disk).  Of course, the friendly warnings about being
wary of Windows 3.1 and Stacker is very important.  Now, with a
combination of Stacker, QEMM, DOS 5.0, and Windows 3.1, I can still
access all my information, but I'm being very cautious!

Mark Runyan

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