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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Compression prog for os2 for happens in dos?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.001521.24208@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 00:15:21 GMT
- References: <1992Sep12.062159.3520@cc.umontreal.ca>
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- In article <1992Sep12.062159.3520@cc.umontreal.ca> deryd@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Dery David) writes:
- > I thought i lot about buying stacker for dos when my HD was allways
- >full but that meant that I lost some executable space. Since some programs
- >need 595k of ram and stacker took some away i let it go. But know some
- >compression programs are coming out ( at least in the U.S...). If i use
- >a compression program under os2 do i loose executable space ?
-
- No! That's one of the nice things about OS/2, namely that if you use
- an OS/2 driver (like DCF/2, the disk compression software for OS/2 --
- see the file dcf2info.txt, available via anonymous ftp from
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in /pub/os2/2.0/info) you don't lose DOS RAM.
-
- > But what bugs me the must is this. If I use a compression program under
- >os2 and then need to run a program in a dos only enveriment, what happens to
- >the compress partitions ? (they would both share the same fat partitions ?)
-
- Unless a DOS driver was also supplied, it would be very much like HPFS
- or Unix volumes are now, namely you wouldn't be able to read them from
- native DOS.
-
- That isn't such a critical problem, though. If you use native DOS
- just leave a small uncompressed FAT volume behind for transfer. Or
- you could always use diskettes, I suppose. :-)
-
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