Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!iuvax!rutgers!njin!limonce From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: ***DoubleDisk*** Message-ID: Date: 29 Oct 90 03:31:12 GMT References: <1990Oct25.200915.27389@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Organization: Drew University/NJIN Lines: 29 In article <1990Oct25.200915.27389@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> njg2@po.CWRU.Edu (J. Norell Guttman) writes: > 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 "Between tracks"? Sounds like a compress algorithm. How sure are you about your sources? > info about this. egs}. Also the system witnessed > practically no slow down {the read spead though went from 25 to 68}. Is 25 to 68 is no difference? > this just an IBM version of the Amiga PD PowerPacker {compresses files > but keeps them executable} or is it really something revolutionary. Is Sounds like PowerPacker that works on data files. It's not too difficult to do, I've seen commercial programs for mainframes as well as IBM PCs that do this. I almost wrote one for the Amiga, but did other projects instead. -Tom -- tlimonce@drew.edu Tom Limoncelli "Freedom and justice tlimonce@drew.uucp +1 201 408 5389 are opposites" tlimonce@drew.Bitnet limonce@pilot.njin.net -me