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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!concert!rock!taco!che01!Webbge
- From: Webbge@che01.ncsu.EDU (Greg Earl Webb)
- Subject: Re: STACKER OR PC STORE OR ????????
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.160017.2227@ncsu.edu>
- Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: Webbge@che01.ncsu.EDU (Greg Earl Webb)
- Organization: North Carolina State University
- References: <i10.1@cs-acad-lan.Lakeheadu.Ca> <3SEP199200265438@zeus.tamu.edu> <1992Sep3.233953.6993@rei.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:00:17 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- In article <1992Sep3.233953.6993@rei.com>, fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
- > rpb0804@zeus.tamu.edu (BATES, ROBERT PATRICK) writes:
- >
- > >>I need more hard disk space but can't afford a larger hard disk at this
- > >>time. Hence, I am looking at on the fly compression products.
- >
- > >DON'T SCREW WITH STACKER 2.0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- > >That SOB almost took out some vital info on my hard drive last semester
- >
- > I get tired of reading responses like this. Stacker 2.0 is a solid
- > product, one which I have pushed and prodded and poked and tried every
- > way I could think of to bring it down. I'm not just a PC user, I'm a PC
- > torturer, and I could not make it fail unless what I did would have made
- > DOS itself fail, too.
- >
- > Stacker is a fine product which is nevertheless blamed first whenever
- > some stupid user makes a mistake and loses some data.
- >
-
- I will have to agree with the latter response. Stacker is a very solid
- peice of software. I have had no problems with compatibility with other
- software and have not lost any data in the year that I have owned it.
-
- I think it should be pointed out to users of Stacker that an SCHECK should
- be performed quite frequently to ensure the integrity of the fat tables
- that stacker keeps.
-
- I would be curious to see the original poster explain exactly what happened
- to his data. "That SOB almost took out some vital info ....." is not
- much of a description of the software inadequacies.
-