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Article #11700Re: Is Auto-Doubler worth it?
From: Brian Hanafee
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:10
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:10
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In article <1993Jan5.180653.16824@mlb.semi.harris.com> bob@dw3f.ess.harris.com (Robert Gillen) writes: >I have an LC with a 40mb drive that is almost full. I received an offer to buy >Auto-Doubler for $19.95 which is about $40 less than I've seen other places. >Is this a good comression program? Any other suggestions? Please respond >by e-mail to bob@dw3f.ess.harris.com or through the newsgroup. Thanks in >advance. Better be careful which version you are getting. The $19.95 might be 1.0.something, rather than the current 2.0, which would cost you another $20 or so (I don't remember exactly how much). AutoDoubler 2.0 is a great improvement, for three reasons: 1. It seems to be more compatible overall. I'm not sure why, but two freeware games I have started to work better when I upgraded. (Work better, in this case, means that the high score list started working again. It is saved within the application, which may indicate where the problem was.) 2. It includes the Autodoubler Internal Compressor application, which allows resource (as opposed to file) level compression. This has noticeably increased to speed that some (previously uncompressed) applications open on my computer. Your mileage may vary, depending on the speed of your processor and the speed of your hard disk, and the application itself. 3. It includes CopyDoubler, which speeds disk copying, allows control of whether compressed items are expanded, and makes your trash empty faster (and gives the option of overwriting deleted files, to make sure they stay deleted). -- Brian Hanafee Advanced Decision Systems bhanafee@ads.com 1500 Plymouth Street (415) 960-7300 Mountain View, CA 94043-1230
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!ads.com!saturn!bhanafee From: bhanafee@picasso.ads.com (Brian Hanafee) Subject: Re: Is Auto-Doubler worth it? In-Reply-To: bob@dw3f.ess.harris.com's message of Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:06:53 GMT Message-ID: <BHANAFEE.93Jan12141014@picasso.ads.com> Sender: usenet@ads.com (USENET News) Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mountain View, CA 94043, +1 (415) 960-7300 References: <1993Jan5.180653.16824@mlb.semi.harris.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:10:14 GMT Lines: 36