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From: njg2@po.CWRU.Edu (J. Norell Guttman)
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Subject: Re: ***DoubleDisk***
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Many people have responded that DoubleDisk which is for the IBM is not
really a hard drive expander but a data compressor.  Powerpacker was
suggested as the Amiga alternative for compressions of files which will
still remain executionable.  However when Powerpacker compacts a data 
file {text} the file gets a .pp extension and can not be accessed until
it is "dePowerPacked" while on DoubleDisk it decompresses when the file
is called up {by a word processor}.  Another thing is the PowerPacker does
not handle IFF and a couple of other types of files claiming "bad huc 
structure".  If PowerPacker does not solve the question, what is the
correct solution?

					J.Norell Guttman
					njg2@po.cwru.edu