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- From: catfood@wariat.org (Mark W. Schumann)
- Subject: Re: Opinions on Stacker
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.163838.27498@wariat.org>
- Organization: Akademia Pana Kleksa, Publi Access UNI* Site
- References: <Gordon.Edwards.54.0@AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> <BuF6yC.En8@cup.hp.com>
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- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 16:38:38 GMT
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- runyan@cup.hp.com (Mark Runyan) writes:
- >Gordon.Edwards@AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Gordon Edwards) writes:
- >>What are people's opinions on Stacker?
- > Of course, any diskettes that I've
- >stacked can't be taken to another system unless the other system is
- >running Stacker...
-
- Wrong. Unless you "stack" the floppy drive itself--and I don't know
- anyone who does--files copied to diskettes are UnStacked there. I
- do this all the time, as my home machine is Stackerized and my work
- machine is not.
-
- This makes perfect sense when you consider that Stacker operates sort
- of "under" the DOS file access interrupts. By the time DOS gets a
- look at your data when reading a Stackerized file, the information
- has already been uncompressed. If the floppy drive is not itself
- Stackerized, you are just copying a normal stream of bytes to the
- diskette.
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