NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/comp/compress/4832

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From: [e-mail] (Michael Kaufman)
Subject: Re: hard disk stacker?
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I have STacker 3.0, and found it a lot better than STacker 2.0.  It has a
coupla more options in the Stac menu, one of which is password protecting your
Stacker drive. when you boot up, or mount the Stacker drive, it'll ask you
for the password.  Not right, won't mount.  Pretty cool.  Also, Stacker 3.0
has a little better compression ratio.  For instance, when I used v2.0, and
did an SDIR on my root, I found that the maximum comression, even on straight
ASCII files was only 3.5:1.  Now, I get a compression ratio of 16:1.
    I've had no problems with v3.0, so, even though 2.0 may have been out
longer, I  believe v3.0 will be just as usefull, if not more, than 2.0.
If you have thge money, go out and get it, I highly recommend it.  Also,
as to the original question of Stacker being a "one-way street"  v3.0 solves
that problem.  It checks how much data is on the STacker drive, and how much
the physical drive can hold, it then tells you if you need to delete some files,
or if it is okay to UnStack the drive, and then tells  you how much space
will be left after UnStacking.  v2.0 didn't have that, as you say, and you
had to delete the Stacvol.dsk files if you wanted to use the physical drive
again.  you don't necessarily have to re-format your drive, just, as I said,
delete teh drive file.
    Buy it, try it, if you don't like it, send it back to get a refund.
simple.


Mike

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