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- From: runyan@cup.hp.com (Mark Runyan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Opinions on Stacker
- Message-ID: <BuF6yC.En8@cup.hp.com>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 15:27:48 GMT
- References: <Gordon.Edwards.54.0@AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>
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- Gordon.Edwards@AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Gordon Edwards) writes:
- >What are people's opinions on Stacker?
-
- Well, I wasn't happy with the virtual disk approach that it uses, but
- it gets the job done (providing what appears to be a little more disk
- space). I think I prefer the method of PKLITE, but for general use,
- Stacker hasn't caused any problems. Of course, any diskettes that I've
- stacked can't be taken to another system unless the other system is
- running Stacker...
-
- >Are there many horror stories or is it generally pretty stable software?
-
- I was put off by the way you had to reserve disk space and it would
- create a `virtual' disk (e.g. my C drive is now C: and D:, with D: being
- the `Stacked' disk). Of course, the friendly warnings about being
- wary of Windows 3.1 and Stacker is very important. Now, with a
- combination of Stacker, QEMM, DOS 5.0, and Windows 3.1, I can still
- access all my information, but I'm being very cautious!
-
- Mark Runyan
-