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- From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: AutoArc (Looks like Staker for GS)
- Message-ID: <d4ms032K82cy00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 18:48:32 GMT
- References: <1992Sep13.195015.1@acad3.alaska.edu> <1992Sep14.064214.13215@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <2AB444DD.27422@ics.uci.edu>
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- In article <2AB444DD.27422@ics.uci.edu> jimmys@ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw) writes:
- >It seems to me that a lot of these programs (on the clones at least),
- >creates a big file on your hard drive, and each file that you creat
- >is written into this file (compressed), and fools the OS into thinking
- >it's got a lot more room.
-
- This (fortunately) isn't possible on the //gs because of all the FSTs. Well,
- nothing's impossible, but it wouldn't be worth the pain you'd have to go
- through. You'd basically have to design a super-fs which could store all of
- the characteristics of every FST available, or you'd end up loosing
- information (which is a bad characteristic for a transparent file compressor!)
-
- >Hopefully, AutoArc is smarter than that. (side note: the price per meg
- >is so reasonable now, why not just get a bigger HD, and avoid the
- >possibly of trashing everything?)
-
- Software expands to fill the available space.
-
- Such programs can also provide additional features, such as (for AutoArc)
- encryption. I personally don't feel the need to encrypt anything, but you
- never know.
-
- Here's a question: how much stuff on your HD is in ShrinkIt archives? How
- much documentation that you only read once a year? How 'bout Gno man pages?
-
- And if you use HFS, you no longer have sparse files, so executables with
- large regions of zeroes become huge. I think YankIt expands from 29 blocks
- to over 100. A simple RLE pass can take this down to (or smaller than) the
- original size.
-
- >Jimmy Shaw RamFAST, ZipGSX and 6.0... Apple II Forever!
- >jimmys@ics.uci.edu
-
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- fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- [ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
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