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Re: Stacker vs. SuperStor

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From: boyd johnson
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 23:03
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In article <BuA1Eu.480@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ezachris@cochiti.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
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>I (too) am running out of diskspace and Stacker and SuperStor came to  
>mind. SuperStor will give you compressed floppies, which Stacker won't.

Bzzzzt! wrong answer.  Stacker 2.0 will give you compressed floppies, but
you need to do a command-line mount of each floppy you insert.
I don't know about the SSTOR equivalent.
The DR DOS version of SSTOR requires some conventional memory, which
Stacker 2.0 and SSTOR 2.0 do not require on a 386.

>Which is better?
>Any difference in performance (compression ration/speed)?

They're functionally not much different.  The utilities are somewhat
different, and preferences are probably very subjective.

BTW, if this gets out into the world, please reply via email, since none
of my articles for the past month seem to have made it onto the
Internet.   Thanks in advance!

-- 
======== Boyd Johnson    nosc!spectra.com!johnson  San Diego, Ca. ========


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======== Boyd Johnson    nosc!spectra.com!johnson  San Diego, Ca. ========
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From: johnson@spectra.com (boyd johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Stacker vs. SuperStor
Keywords: Data Compression
Message-ID: <1992Sep9.230324.13526@spectra.com>
Date: 9 Sep 92 23:03:24 GMT
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