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Compression Agent

If you're going to compress a drive with DriveSpace, initial compression is done when the drive is set up - a 100Mb drive takes a couple of minutes on a fast Pentium. But the Compression Agent can compress files much more aggressively, if you can spare the time. Like DriveSpace itself, the Win98 Compression Agent is fundamentally unchanged from the last (Win95 Plus! Pack or OSR2) version. So, there's nothing new to learn if you're upgrading, but again you'll be disappointed if you want to compress a FAT32 drive. You can't.
Running Compression Agent first checks that you're running DriveSpace, and that you already have a compressed drive on your system. If so, you're given various options to compress files further using HiPack or UltraPack compression. You can exclude whole folders, types of files, or recently used files from the process - if files are constantly changing, you may be wasting time compressing them further than necessary.

Once compressed, HiPacked or UltraPacked files can be read in the usual way, though you'll want to run the Agent again from time to time to compress new files.
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