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- From: wright@epx.cis.umn.edu (Mark Wright)
- Subject: Re: Stacker and Borland C++ 3.1
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.233054.23309@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- References: <1992Jul24.061509.437@news2.cis.umn.edu> <cee1.712010166@Isis.MsState.Edu> <2932@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 23:30:54 GMT
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- In article <2932@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries) writes:
- >In <cee1.712010166@Isis.MsState.Edu> cee1@ra.msstate.edu (Charles Evans) writes:
- >
- >>wright@epx.cis.umn.edu () writes:
- >
- >>>Does anyone out there have Borland's C++ v3.1 (the 41 meg one!) on a "stacked"
- >>>hard drive? How much space does it end up using? Will a stacked 40 meg drive
- >>>be large enough?
- >
- >>>Mark Wright
- >
- >>Straight from Borland Customer Help:
- >>Hard Disk Requirements:
- >>
- >>42Mb for 2k allocation units
- >>48Mb for 4k allocation units
- >>57Mb for 8K allocation units <--- I suppose this is Stacker.
- >
- >No it isn't. Stacker does use data compression to reduce the actual
- >disk space usage significantly. Stacker has an avarage compression
- >of 1:2, due to the large amount of good compressible and small files
- >a use of 21Mb or less is expectable for BC++ 3.1 on a stacked drive.
- >Also notice one can save lots of HD space by not installing all of
- >it.
- >
- >>Charles E. Evans
- >
- >
- >Nico E. de Vries
- >_ _
- >O O USENET nevries@cc.ruu.nl FIDO 2:281/708.1 COMPUSERVE "soon" (tm)
- > o This text reflects MY opinions, not that of my employer BITECH.
- >\_/ This text is supplied 'AS IS', no waranties of any kind apply.
- > Don't waste your time on complaining about my hopeless typostyle.
- >
- >"Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers
- > to see if the sender knows what he is talking about" (A.S. Tanenbaum)
-
- Well, I just went out and did it. Unfortunatly, Stacker won't tell me
- how much space my files are really taking up, and SDIR doesn't handle
- subdirectories, so I can't get an overall compression ratio for the whole
- package (without sitting down and figuring it out anyway). But just
- checking some of the directories it looks like Borland C++ 3.1 averages
- around a compression ratio of 2:1 (just like Stacker claims). By only
- installing the DOS options, and by leaving off TASM and the profiler
- I managed to pare it down to 16 meg (including Turbo Vision!), which I
- figure only takes up around 8 megs of actual disk space.
- Anyway, if anyone cares, it looks like using Stacker will allow
- those of us with only 40 meg HD's to use Borland's spiffy new compiler.
-
- Mark Wright
- wright@epx.cis.umn.edu
-