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- From: kevinh@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Kevin Herrboldt)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Autodoubler needs Diskdoubler?
- Message-ID: <8134@orbit.cts.com>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 03:41:50 GMT
- Sender: news@orbit.cts.com
- Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.
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- >Now, you don't *have* to have DD to run AD, but you will find yourself playing
- >ridiculous games to get around AD's limitations which, frankly, I believe
- >were left in to push people into buying both products.
- >
- >These limitations are:
- >
- >4 - The worst thing about AD-only is there is NO WAY TO DECOMPRESS
- > A FILE. I find this absolutely ridiculous. The only way to do it
- > is to make a copy of the file (which will be created uncompressed),
- > then delete the original, then rename the copy. I'm not kidding.
- >
-
- This is absolutely false. AutoDoubler comes with a utility called "ADExpand
- Util" (as well as others) to uncompress files without AutoDoubler running.
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