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Re: Stacker vs. SuperStor

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From: MONTGOMERY, NOEL DAVIS
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 18:22
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In article <1992Sep14.155054.28622@rei.com>, fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes...
>Scott.Johnson@FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM (Scott Johnson) writes:
> 
>>I think that
>>the latest SuperStor gives you the ability to write compressed floppies that
>>are readable by any machine, even without superstor
> 
>How can DOS read a compressed disk without loading a device driver to
>make sense of it?  Do they include a TSR routine on the floppy?
> 
>-- 
>#ifdef TRUE         | Fuzzy Fox                  fuzzy@netcom.com
>#define  TRUE   0   | a.k.a. David DeSimone      an207@cleveland.freenet.edu
>#define  FALSE  1   |
>#endif              |         How's my posting?  Call 1-800-ALT-FLAME

Yes, they give you a small utility to compress/decompress to the floppy.

Noel Montgomery

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