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- From: divineg@prism.cs.orst.edu (Glade Diviney)
- Subject: Re: Ways to double hard drive capacity???
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 18:06:04 GMT
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- In <191l97INN2v6@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk> iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian W Moor) writes:
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- >In article <18uvp8INNoal@agate.berkeley.edu>, kevinm@ocf.berkeley.edu
- >(Kevin Miller) writes:
- >|> This is no flame, but a serious question. How does stacker handle the
- >|> possibility of system crashes during the time that it takes to
- >compress a file?
-
- >What worries me more is that by compressing a file, you lose all redundancy,
- >if one byte of a compressed file is changed, all the rest of the file has
- >potentially been lost, at the very least garbled.
-
- I would hope that ANY compression engine would work by first compressing
- the file, and _then_ deleting the original file. AutoDoubler on the M*C
- works like this, and it's _very_ reliable (it has to be, a Mac on system
- 7 crashes nearly every 30 seconds 8^).
-
- -=Glade Diviney
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