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runyan@cup.hp.com (Mark Runyan) writes:
>Gordon.Edwards@AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Gordon Edwards) writes:
>>What are people's opinions on Stacker?
>                                     Of course, any diskettes that I've
>stacked can't be taken to another system unless the other system is
>running Stacker...

Wrong.  Unless you "stack" the floppy drive itself--and I don't know
anyone who does--files copied to diskettes are UnStacked there.  I
do this all the time, as my home machine is Stackerized and my work
machine is not.

This makes perfect sense when you consider that Stacker operates sort
of "under" the DOS file access interrupts.  By the time DOS gets a
look at your data when reading a Stackerized file, the information
has already been uncompressed.  If the floppy drive is not itself
Stackerized, you are just copying a normal stream of bytes to the
diskette.
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