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- From: tbrannam@gmuvax.gmu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Opinions on Stacker
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.232152.52330@gmuvax.gmu.edu>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 23:21:52 -0500
- References: <Gordon.Edwards.54.0@AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> <millernw.715827779@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> <Bu6tI0.226@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <Bu6tI0.226@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (.) writes:
- > millernw@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Neal Miller) writes:
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- >>Gordon.Edwards@AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Gordon Edwards) writes:
- >
- >>>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.
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > Frank Wang
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- I've been running Stacker v1.?? for almost 2 years without any stacker related
- problems... (I did have a total hard drive failure... she was past
- her prime anyway...)
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- =Z.B.=
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