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In article <1992Apr12.214538.19579@animal.gcs.co.nz> lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz (Lawrence Chiu) writes:
>PC Mag had a review of a number of such packages recently and came out in
>favour of Stacker with Superstor a close second. Either would suit your
>needs, especially if you have a 386 so that the performance hit in
>compression/decompression is low and you can load the drivers in the UMB
>to avoid taking up precious low memory (if that is a concern to you).
>I use Stacker on one of my drives and even in Windows I hardly notice
>the overhead (this is on a 386/40).

Thanks for all the email responses to my inquiry.

I ended up getting SuperStor version 2.0.  The local CompUSA was selling
it for $47, while they were charging $99 for Stacker software version 2.0.

The installation for SuperStor was painless.  I repartitioned by 120 Mbyte
harddrive into 40 + 60 + 20.  The first two partitions are for MS-DOS, the
last is reserved for an os TBD.  I told SuperStor I wanted 8 Mbyte for 
Windows permanent swapfile on drive C:.  Prior to installation my drive was
running with about 30 Mbytes free space.  After installation, the stat
program from SuperStor tells me I have about 75 Mbytes free, not counting
the 20 Mbyte I reserved in that third partition.

But the amazing thing was the performance improvement.  Performance was my
main concern with using on-the-fly data compression.  I also have a 386/40,
and was I pleased when I found Windows running noticeably faster, as well as
most of my DOS and Windows apps.

I'm impressed with this product.

-- 
Tom Albrecht