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From: njg2@po.CWRU.Edu (J. Norell Guttman)
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Subject: ***DoubleDisk***
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There is a program available for the IBM and its clones called DoubleDisk.
It can in many cases more than double the hard drive capicity.  According
to what I have heard, it is written in Assembly and reads and writes
between tracks of the hard drive thereby increasing ones density.  At the
same time it has an ultrafast decompressor that decompresses not in
memmory but on disk but when the program is finished accessing, it recompacts
it -- this way it also save memory.  I have seen on my friends Zenith
386/25 with a 20 meg hard drive create partitions with the program giving
him the line 120000000 bytes free {120 meg}.  Could some one give me some
info about this.			egs}. Also the system witnessed 
practically no slow down {the read spead though went from 25 to 68}.  Is
this just an IBM version of the Amiga PD PowerPacker {compresses files
but keeps them executable} or is it really something revolutionary.  Is
there something like that for the Amiga or if I want cheap hard drive
capacity for text data should I just go after an IBM clone with a cheap 
hard drive with 250 megs giving me with DoubleDisk over half a gigabyte.

			  Amiga is Number One Under The Sun!


				J.Norell Guttman
				njg2@po.cwru.edu