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Re: Stacker vs. SuperStor

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From: D. Scott Baeder; x6299
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 20:54
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In article <1992Sep9.213853.28528@midway.uchicago.edu>, spcberto@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund) writes:
|> I believe SuperStor creates compressed floppies that others (who don't
|> have SuperStor) can read, however.
|> 
I haven`t used this feature yet, but thats what they say...they have a
small tsr that you put on the diskette, and it's used to actually do
the job...ie put in the floppy, run the tsr, then access the rest of
the floppy

as for its useage...I like it (it was on sale, and a lot cheaper than
stacker).  I have a cyrix 486/25MHz so your mileage may vary...I chose
to use the two volume approach...the SSTOR volume is a big file on the
hard disk, and you put some of your files on the "D:" drive...(which
is C: at bootup)...makes the config.sys a bit more complicated, and
you have to duplicate some files (so windows can find them), but the
install does this for you...(but if you add/delete drivers, its
something to watch out for)

Its smart enough to disable smartdrv on the sstor'd disk (boy it would
be easier to say stacked, but...), and is also smart enough that if
you edit the c:config.sys, it also updates it on the "d:" drive.

I haven't had any trouble...I like it a lot...

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Scott Baeder			Sr. Member Consulting Staff
baeder@cadence.com		Cadence Design Systems
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Subject: Re: Stacker vs. SuperStor
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