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- From: mjbrown@lonestar.utsa.edu (Marc J. Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Compression
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.053515.4271@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 05:35:15 GMT
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- In article <cheungc.711801996@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> cheungc@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Carson Cheung) writes:
- >Does anybody know of a program for the Amiga similar to SuperStor and Stacker
- >on MS-DOS systems which will compress and decompress files 'on the fly'.
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- I have heard that the Amiga had "on-the-fly" compression/decompression long
- before IBMers did (practically a necessity since most Amiga owners have
- limited ram). I think Imploder does what you're looking for, and I also
- believe it's PD. [I can understand why you got confused, thinking IBM got
- there first; I've even heard people tell me that IBMers invented MOD files.]
-
- Here's another interesting tidbit: I have also heard that Stack eats hard-
- drives for lunch (that is to say, it destroys them utterly and irreversably).
- I've also talked with several IBM owners who experienced this firsthand
- (one lost a 70 meg [or something] that had his "life's work" of personal
- programming, and he is now an Amiga owner :).
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