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- From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
- Subject: Re: Ways to double hard drive capacity???
- Message-ID: <2ywn+sn.fuzzy@netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 19:37:06 GMT
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- oleg@crumpet.cts.com (Oleg Rovner) writes:
-
- >Can't the
- >Stacker people be sued for false advertisement? I mean, is it so hard to
- >say "compress the information" instead of "double the capacity of the
- >drive"?
-
- Since the compression is transparent to the user (in most cases),
- Stacker really does effectively double the capacity, since for most
- intents and purposes, it does work that way! Is that so hard for you to
- understand?
-
- >If you want something that compresses data, I think the Amiga approach which
- >lets one choose WHICH files get compressed and is transparent only after
- >compression is better. Try PowerPacker or Turbo Imploder. Turbo Imploder is
- >PD, PowerPacker is not.
-
- Is that all you have on your hard disk? Programs? What about data
- files, like anims, pictures, fonts, mods, text files, and other useful
- things? Imploder can't do any more for these than LHA, and constantly
- archiving and dearchiving data is something that users want to avoid.
- They want a package that will do it for them, on the fly. This is what
- Stacker does for the PC user, and it's only a matter of time before
- there is a similar product for the Amiga. Whoever creates that system
- first and makes it work, stands to make a lot of money, since the market
- is demanding it.
-
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