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- From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: Floppy Compression
- Message-ID: <3300@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 14:29:40 GMT
- References: <1992Nov7.203157.29032@news.ysu.edu>
- Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht
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- In <1992Nov7.203157.29032@news.ysu.edu> ah017@yfn.ysu.edu (John B. Lee) writes:
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- >Are there any shareware of freeware compression programs that will compress
- >a floppy and then when a program access's the floppy the files
- >would then be uncompressed and loaded. Something like stacker but for floppies
- >only.
-
- Stacker 3.0 is capable of making such diskettes. I believe the compression
- decompession code on the diskette is royaltee free. SuperStor (Pro) also
- can make such diskettes but those can only be decompressed without
- SuperStor
-
- >John Lee
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