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- From: diskount@micromed.com (don hirschfeld)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: double hard drive capacity??? NOT
- Message-ID: <ciH2qB1w165w@micromed.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 05:21:23 PDT
- References: <65759@cup.portal.com>
- Organization: Micro-Medic BBS - +1 408 279 5240 - Public Access
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- DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta) writes:
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- > hard disk!" It's a flat out lie! if you store NOTHING but WordPerfect
- > text files and un-run-length-encoded pictures then maybe Stacker can
- > double your disk space... but then, Is that all YOU have on YOUR hard disk?
- >
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- I have Stacker on my 200meg HD and I get an average 1:1.7 compression
- average on 160megs of files. Not 2x but not bad. There are almost no text
- files in that either , mostly programs and data. I see no delay in
- compression or decompression. I wish Stacker was for the Amiga also!
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- diskount@micromed.com (don hirschfeld)
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