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In article <1992Sep12.033636.2767@ksmith.uucp> keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith) writes:
>In article <4258@3cpu.rain.com> reaper@3cpu.rain.com (Ian Johnston) writes:
>>
>>  I am currently using Stacker, and have encountered no problems (yet).  I
>>don't expect to have any, but you never know.  It did indeed increase disk
>>space by about 100% (which was REAL nice).  My only gripe is that it won't 
>>work with unix!
>>
>>reaper@3cpu.rain.com
>>
>
>No,  Stacker TOLD you you have twice the storage.  You don't.  It

The utility program, scheck, that comes with Stacker 2.0 (along with some of
the other utility programs) tells you what your compression ratio is.  I get
2.0 on my regular drive and 1.6 on my games drive.  This is no lie.  The size
of the total disk is assumed (by Stacker) at installation to be twice the size
of the unstackered drive but this may be changed later if you find that it is
far from the amount that actually fits on the drive.

>depends on what you are storing.  Don't bank on those numbers, and read
>the book.  A friend was showing a free 25 Meg on a stacked 40 and then
>bam, out of space. . .

What version is he running?  I run Stacker 2.0 and it multiplies the actual
free space on the drive by the compression ratio (the one reported by scheck
et al) to get the space free.  I have always found it to report the correct
amount.  It is true that if you subtract the amount stored from the assumed
disk size, the number is wrong.  This is NOT however, the space free.  If you
explicitly ask DOS how much space is free, you will get the correct number.

Harry
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