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- From: jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
- Subject: Re: Stacker and Borland C++ 3.1
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.133132.12505@CERIS.Purdue.EDU>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 13:31:32 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.233054.23309@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Organization: Center for Environmental and Regulatory Information Systems, Purdue University
- Lines: 59
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- From article <1992Jul29.233054.23309@news2.cis.umn.edu>, by wright@epx.cis.umn.edu (Mark Wright):
- > 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
- >>
- >
- > 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.
- >
-
- I have 2 10 meg Bernoulli drives and recently bought BC++ 3.0
- (I've sent off for 3.1). Is there a way to set things up so that
- I can use the compiler? I do have a 30 meg hard drive, but I
- only have ~11 meg left on it.
-
- I tried using one of the PD/Shareware programs like stacker, but
- it didn't like some of the BC++ programs that were Windows
- programs. I don't have Windows, but would like to be able to
- create stuff for Windows. Is that possible?
- --
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- Though all the world betrays thee.
- One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard, (The Minstrel Boy)
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