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- From: johnson@spectra.com (boyd johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Stacker vs. SuperStor
- Keywords: Data Compression
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.230324.13526@spectra.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 23:03:24 GMT
- References: <BuA1Eu.480@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Sep9.201859.9226@spectra.com>
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- Organization: Spectragraphics Corporation
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- In article <BuA1Eu.480@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ezachris@cochiti.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
- >
- >I (too) am running out of diskspace and Stacker and SuperStor came to
- >mind. SuperStor will give you compressed floppies, which Stacker won't.
-
- Bzzzzt! wrong answer. Stacker 2.0 will give you compressed floppies, but
- you need to do a command-line mount of each floppy you insert.
- I don't know about the SSTOR equivalent.
- The DR DOS version of SSTOR requires some conventional memory, which
- Stacker 2.0 and SSTOR 2.0 do not require on a 386.
-
- >Which is better?
- >Any difference in performance (compression ration/speed)?
-
- They're functionally not much different. The utilities are somewhat
- different, and preferences are probably very subjective.
-
- BTW, if this gets out into the world, please reply via email, since none
- of my articles for the past month seem to have made it onto the
- Internet. Thanks in advance!
-
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