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- From: vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen)
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- Subject: Re: diet and slim
- Date: 9 Jan 1993 06:51:17 GMT
- Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
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- calvert@QueensU.CA (John Calvert) writes:
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- >Does anyone have any experience with these two disk compression programs?
- >I am hesitant to load them without some strong recommandations. How do
- >they compare to commercial software like Stacker? My hard disk is hovering
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- Diet compares pretty well! In fact, Diet has a tremendous advantage:
- it doesn't cost anything!
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- >around 10M free which cramps my work. What I'm most likely to compress
- >are programs such as misc utilities and my editor and compilers.
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- Diet will compress/decompress automatically text files, executables,
- device drivers, even COMMAND.COM itself, I think... <g>.
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- >Thanks in advance for any comments offered.
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- You're absolutely welcome.
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- VP
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