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catfood@wariat.org (Mark W. Schumann) writes:
>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...
>...Unless you "stack" the floppy drive itself--and I don't know
>anyone who does--files copied to diskettes are UnStacked there.  ...

I didn't make myself clear.  Yes, I `stack' the 3.5" floppy.  Only
sometimes.  With Stacker 2.0, I can do that optionally.  I can write
normal floppies (as you do), which can easily be read elsewhere, so
Stacker isn't a problem there.  It is only if I stack the floppy and
write to it via Stacker that I can't (at least, I don't think I can)
read the floppy on a non-stackerized system.  [A stacked floppy has
a stackvol file on it, and the only way I know to access that is
through stacker].

Now, I've seen claims (on their box) that SuperStor can compress a
floppy and the floppy can then be read on non-SuperStorized machines.
I was merely trying to indicate that Stacker 2.0 doesn't appear to
have that ability.

Mark Runyan