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- From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
- Subject: Re: Stacker vs. SuperStor
- Message-ID: <sheldon.716047316@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu>
- Keywords: Data Compression
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:01:56 GMT
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- In <BuA1Eu.480@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ezachris@cochiti.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
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- >I (too) am running out of diskspace and Stacker and SuperStor came to
- >mind. SuperStor will give you compressed floppies, which Stacker won't.
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- >Which is better?
- >Any difference in performance (compression ration/speed)?
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- I'm running SuperStor v2.04 on a 386SX/16 with a 80 Meg Western Digital
- harddrive. No problems, no noticeable speed decrease, and the superstored
- floppies are rather nice at times. I've been putting some of my smaller
- software packages(like games mostly) on these floppies to save space on
- my harddrive.
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- IMHO, SuperStor is better, at least for me. It gives equivalent performance
- as Stacker, and I bought it for $50, vs. $99 for Stacker.
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- You decide, but you won't go wrong either way.
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- Steve Sheldon sheldon@iastate.edu
- Iowa Cooperative Soil Survey Resource Unit
- 2142 Agronomy, Iowa State University (515) 294-5429
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