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- From: adamsr@netcom.com (Rick Adams)
- Subject: Re: diet and slim
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.221536.4517@netcom.com>
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 22:15:36 GMT
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- Thus spake calvert@QueensU.CA (John Calvert):
-
- >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
- >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.
- >
-
- I use DIET as a tsr on both my desktop and my laptop, and have found
- it to be one of the most beneficial programs I own. I've tried both Stacker
- and the compression routines bundled with DR-DOS, and while they provide
- more space than does diet (coupled with pklite - which I use for my
- non-overlaid exe files), they both seem FAR more subject to problems than
- diet.
-
- Try it - not only will you like it, but it's EASILY reversible
- (typing diet -r *.* will restore all files in a directory) in the event an
- individual program is "unhappy" with the packed file.
-
- Hope it helps.
-
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