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Article #6164Re: Stacker vs. SuperStor
From: D. Scott Baeder; x6299
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 20:54
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... -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Scott Baeder Sr. Member Consulting Staff baeder@cadence.com Cadence Design Systems
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!Cadence.COM!shamu!baeder From: baeder@shamu.cadence.com (D. Scott Baeder; x6299) Subject: Re: Stacker vs. SuperStor Message-ID: <1992Sep25.205435.14647@Cadence.COM> Keywords: Data Compression Sender: usenet@Cadence.COM (Usenet News) Nntp-Posting-Host: shamu Reply-To: baeder@cadence.com Organization: Cadence Design Systems, CAE Division References: <BuA1Eu.480@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Sep9.213853.28528@midway.uchicago.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 20:54:35 GMT Lines: 29