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Re: SUPERSTOR

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From: G. Wayne Nichols
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 17:52
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In <Jim_Johnson.08ju@abcd.Houghton.MI.US> Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson) writes:

>Until I recently purchased a much larger HD, I ran the version of SuperStor
>included with DRDOS 6.0.  In fact, I was running it on a 20meg parallel
>port connected HD.  It ran just fine.  DRDOS 6.0 documentation does warn
>you against using any disk optimization software other than DISKOPT (comes
>with DRDOS 6.0) on the SuperStor partition.  I personnally like Norton, but
>it was a small price for what I gained in disk space.

While totally ignoring such warnings, I have successfully used
PC Tools' COMPRESS utility on a SuperStor'ed drive many times.
I imagine Norton's SPEEDISK would be equally successful.
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