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- From: ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (.)
- Subject: Re: Opinions on Stacker
- References: <Gordon.Edwards.54.0@AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> <millernw.715827779@craft.camp.clarkson.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 02:56:23 GMT
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- millernw@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Neal Miller) writes:
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- >Gordon.Edwards@AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Gordon Edwards) writes:
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- >>What are people's opinions on Stacker?
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- >>Are there many horror stories or is it generally pretty stable software?
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- >>Any comments appreciated.
- >>Please post, I'm sure others are interested.
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- > Well, if you don't mind mashing each and every file on your drive
- >into a single file by using an irreversible compression process with no
- >"uninstall" feature, PLUS not knowing quite how much space you have left on
- >your hard drive at any given time, hey, it's fine! But I wouldn't put it
- >on *my* system. I suppose if you have a tape backup for emergencies, it's
- >ok. It won't save you as much space, but try PKLITE. It only works on
- >some .EXE and .COM files, but it's 100% reversible if something goes wrong.
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- I've heard stacker is reversable. Also, if you do a directory, it will tell
- you how much space you have left, to an extent. Okay, okay, zipped files,
- arjed files, and other compressed files will take up twice as much space,
- but on the general whole, the amount of space it gives you is accurate, since
- it is updated.
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- Frank Wang
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