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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Subject: Re: Autodoubler 2.0
- Message-ID: <1992Sep07.163917.14970@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 16:39:17 GMT
- Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <92250.234352U59985@uicvm.uic.edu>
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- In article <92250.234352U59985@uicvm.uic.edu> U59985@uicvm.uic.edu writes:
- >Here are some news on AutoDoubler 2.0 for those who are interested.
- >
- >AD 2.0 will compress/decompress about 25% faster than 1.07.
- >AD 2.0 will come with CopyDoubler. This is an extension that will allow the use
- >r to copy files in the Finder about 2-3 times faster. It will also allow the co
- >pying of files without decompressing them first.
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- Will this be manual (like DD's copy files) or automatic?
-
- >AD 2.0 will also allow compressed applications/inits/cdevs to be run on systems
- > without AD 2.0 - This is similar to More Disk Space.
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- Compressed resources in System 7's compression format, perhaps?
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- Any more about the hardware compression board? Will it ever be
- supported again?
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- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu
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